Robin Williams said this line, or some version of it, in various interviews and public moments before his death in 2014. The line has, since, become one of…
Carl Sagan wrote this line, in a slightly longer form, in the introduction to Pale Blue Dot in 1994. The line has, since his death, become one of those quotes…
Brian Cox said this in one of his BBC documentaries, somewhere in the last fifteen years, with the particular quiet confidence he tends to deliver these kinds of lines with.
There is a particular kind of adult who can, in 2026, sit through a two-hour film without once reaching for their phone.
There is a particular kind of low-grade fatigue that almost every adult I know carries, and that almost none of them can identify the source of.
I have, by now, lost count of the number of times I have stepped out of an airport into a city that I had previously only encountered in films and felt, for the first hour or so, slightly dislocated in time.
There is a small social event I have been paying close attention to for about a decade now, because the event has turned out to be the most reliable diagnostic I have ever found for who, in any given conversation, is worth taking seriously.
Charles Bukowski wrote, somewhere in his enormous body of cantankerous late-career output, that the problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
There is a small social experiment one can perform in any large supermarket parking lot, anywhere in the world.
There has been a particular pattern in twentieth-century science fiction that the wider culture has not, on the available evidence, fully reckoned with, even…
My mother has a younger sister, who I will call my aunt, because she is, and who has been, for as long as I have known her, what the wider family politely refers to as "the eccentric one.
I have been to Tokyo five times in the last decade. I keep going back, partly because the food is the best in the world by almost any metric I can apply to…
Kobe Bryant said, somewhere in the last few years of his life, that the biggest mistake we make is thinking we have time.
I want to write about a small habit I have come to associate, over the last decade or so, with a particular kind of intelligence that the wider culture does not, on the available evidence, fully recognize as intelligence.
I want to write about a small internal shift I have, in the last few years, started noticing in myself, and that I am not yet sure I trust enough to fully describe, but that I think is worth setting down before I lose track of how it actually arrived.
I want to write about a small piece of internal arithmetic that I have, in the last few years, started running about arguments, and that has, in some real way, changed how I conduct most of the disagreements in my adult life.
