Given the speed of innovation and the loftiness of its promises to improve our comfort or convenience, we often embrace a new technology long before we experience its most worrisome consequences. As consumers, we are pushed to adopt new tech (or … [Continue reading]
I’ve been reading quite a lot over the past couple of months, and want to recommend two books that have brought me immense pleasure during a challenging time. Each is noteworthy for different reasons. The first is a page-turner that's built upon the … [Continue reading]
For some writing that I have ahead of me, I’ve been researching how to make good use of a refuge that you’ve created from the outside world. When bad things are happening out there and they've torn you apart, how do you re-group enough to go back out … [Continue reading]
I’ve been thinking about our national death wish. I'd finally gotten around to an essay about the California wildfires in 2018 and how quickly we seemed to forget about their horrors in the year that followed. It's also because we're now in the … [Continue reading]
Trying to identify who is (and isn’t) “an essential worker” is the wrong game to be in today. As the current upheavals are making plain: all workers are essential workers. Everyone who wants to work in America should be able to do so because: - … [Continue reading]
