Most of us have a vague intuition that something an older person writes might carry information about how their mind is going. The handwriting shakes, the letters slide, the pen rises too quickly. But intuition is not measurement, and what…
After about twenty of these conversations, I stopped being surprised by the anger. The outrage was to be expected. What I didn’t expect was what sat beneath it, something quieter, more insistent, and harder to name at first articulation. Most…
Selling your business is one of the most impactful and nerve-wracking decisions you’ll make as an entrepreneur. A well-executed transaction can be the most significant financial event of your life, not to mention the impact on your career, relationships with…
Somewhere in the last decade, the creative economy discovered Kevin Kelly and did something instructive with what he found. Kelly’s original 1000 True Fan EssaysPublished in 2008, it made a simple and rather beautiful argument: a creator does not need…
p>At some point, true crime starts to feel predictable. There is terrible music. Childhood pictures. The neighbor “locked” himself by saying something. Slow detection. The last episode that gave you answers or left you Googling updates at midnight. I’ve watched…
When the Surgeon General Vivek Murthy In 2023, he published his advice on loneliness, which he described as a signal the body sends when “we need something to live for.” The framework is accurate and useful as needed. But seventy…
A few months ago, I checked my stats one morning and noticed that my weight had dropped. A post I published eight months ago and essentially forgot about was not one of my best pieces by any measure, attracting more…
Some mysteries fade because people stop caring. Others become alienated as they sit on the Internet. Crazy video. Missing plane. To the child whom no one could name for 65 years. A password that reaches half a century. These are…
The format was two lines. Sometimes three. Always the field code in parentheses where the name would normally pass. The posts read like audible fragments: a set of numbers, something ridiculous or funny or both, sometimes a response from the…
The easy version of Belle Gibson’s story is that she fooled a lot of people who should have known better. It’s a convenient framework because it frees everyone from the hook. If his followers were simply gullible, naïve about diet…
