Some resolutions for the new year. ...
December 31, 2023
It's been an excellent year. ...
December 30, 2023
Newsletter subscribers might be surprised to see a slightly new design. I’ve moved away from Substack and back to Buttondown, an indie mailing list service. Every email will be free from now on; paid subscribers will be refunded in full.
Why? Here’s the New York Times with the story:
Under pressure from ...
December 23, 2023
It's an onerous law. Maybe it needs to be. ...
December 18, 2023
When I was eleven years old, my family relocated to the outskirts of Durham, North Carolina for a little while while my dad taught at Duke. We home-swapped with an abortion doctor, and our temporary home was sometimes pelted with eggs. My parents asked us not to play in the ...
December 17, 2023
I’d been doing pretty well on my manuscript until I realized I needed to make a major plot revision. That’s been a tough thing to go back and re-edit for. For a few months I was paralyzed between just rewriting the whole thing or diving into extensive re-edits.
I chose to ...
December 17, 2023
I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with my Twitter/X account. I don’t want to leave it dormant, because the current policy is to reclaim usernames from accounts that don’t post, which creates a risk that someone will come along and claim to be me later on. (I’d ...
December 15, 2023
An annual pulse check for the journalism industry ...
December 13, 2023
I was very taken by Robin Berjon’s description of technologists:
Someone needs to navigate the digital world (for a business, a project, any institution) without blind deference to vertical experts, and without monkeying dumb Silicon Valley tropes or giving credence to breathless LinkedIn thoughtleadering.
The full post is a solid description of the ...
December 9, 2023
Seems like a good name for a startup ...
December 5, 2023
I’ve been struggling a little bit to re-find my creative rhythm and balance it with the needs of having and supporting a family.
My day — every day — looks like this:
Woken up by baby
Get baby ready for daycare (breakfast, clothes, etc)
Walk to daycare and back
Eat breakfast
Work
Walk back to daycare and ...
December 1, 2023