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On Friday at 5pm, I was asked what I was doing this weekend. I answered “I have no idea, but something always comes up.” It is three months into my second year in New York City, and the level of spontaneity that this city calls for has been unmatched anywhere else I’ve lived. Today, I…

I read somewhere (perhaps from Mark Cuban) that entrepreneurs really only need to be really right, once. Preferably when everyone else is wrong. I don’t think this is just for entrepreneurs. Artists need a breakout hit. Athletes need to win the big race. Artists need their magnum opus and writers need their Great American Novel.…

I literally do not know how socks go missing so much. Back when I used to do my own laundry, the dirty socks always went into the hamper in pairs. I always checked the washing machine for clothing stuck to the sides. I always generously scooped all the clothes out of the dryer and back…

I just started (admittedly late) reading Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Seeing as I am no further than chapter one, I don’t have much to say at this point, except for it is rare to read a book where on the first page, a word is, literally, invented by the author, and by the third…

“The next morning I awoke at eight o’clock and turned on the TV, and watched as my beloved country lost its goddamn mind.” – Lewis Black It was a moment made for viral video. White catholic school prep boys in Make America Great Again hats. Black Hebrew Israelite protesters. Native American demonstrators. And of course,…

It’s MLK Day, which means the annual ritual of public figures pulling their favorite quotes from this extraordinary man which conveniently align with their worldview, and, of course, excoriating those who they believe to be betraying his legacy. I submit that neither the identitarian puritanism of the populist Left or the radical nationalism of the…

It’s inevitable that every 3-6 months I will dive down a Law & Order rabbit hole. If I’m at my parents’ house, it tends to be Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. I believe with confidence that I have seen every episode of every version of the franchise, with the understandable exception of that Trial by Jury malarkey. I must be…

A couple days late reading David Brooks’ excellent new piece in which he examines the ‘cycle of abuse’ of the finger-pointing, witch-burning bullying of people across the internet who deviate from the ever-shifting ideological norm. It’s further affirmation of my growing and persistent fear that actually, no one is safe, and we should, as a…

The road has always been a preferred metaphor for progress, journey, and achievement. It has been a long road, they will say at the end of the championship season. If you lost, you might have been on the road to failure all along. There will be twists and turns in the road, and even forks…

This is one of the most beautiful and humbling paragraphs in all of science. The closing of The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin. Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead…