When I matriculated in the 1990’s, college was still a kind of overnight camp with education. You went to classes during the day to learn things that might help you get a job and hung out with other students the rest of the time to figure out who you really were.
I experienced a radical change in lifestyle recently: I got my first dishwasher in over 20 years.
I want to share with you the research I did on home solar panels so you can save a ton of money and help slow global climate change as a nifty side benefit.
We all know what tastes good and with some repetition, we can get better at making food that pleases each of us. So, let me share some of my best cooking tips with you.
Fortune favors the bold. So what exactly is our alternative?
January has been a good month for reading and thinking. With the cold weather, I’ve been sequestered on my couch, warming myself with my laptop. Here’s what’s been flowing through my brain.
These are the ideas that lived in my brain for far too long in 2024.
For your edification, is a compilation of all the non-political things I liked this past year.
Looking at my fridge, you’ll see a weekly menu divided in a grid, organized by days and four boxes. The pandemic brought a small change that changed everything.
What if other creatures aren’t less than us, but just different? What if they are people?
The outsides and the tops of the buildings are glamorous, but get down to the ground level, where the humans are, it gets dusty.
The poetry of sayings make you believe the words have more wisdom than ordinary speech, and so they stay with you.
I think the way news organizations approach Dubai’s climate discussions is broken – primarily that politics needs to be covered more, because we’re now talking about money, not morality. I’m heading to Dubai to learn as much as I can about the negotiations.
Run, run, run. Working for Bill Richardson was exhausting. It made me irritable sometimes, and with that came too much truth telling for a boss.
This is my third trip to La Capital since 2019. The pandemic slowed things down, but everytime I’ve gone it’s been packed with magic.
Wondering what we were all about and why we had this funny last name, growing up I constantly plied my grandfather for family history. He had a lot of it.
Roads and the cars that drive on them have a mystical power in Los Angeles. The way you build roads changes everything about the built environment and how you choose to interact with people.
When it comes to travel, we’re generally more interested in the destination rather than the conveyance, which is exactly why airlines are able to squeeze us into tiny seats.
While ChatGPT and Bing’s Chat seem like essentially two flavors of the same thing, both developed by the OpenAI Foundation, they are really two different technologies with vastly different potential impacts.
I couldn’t finish a very good book because it got me thinking about Max Weber, economic theory, and Donny, a boy I used to play with when I was little.
Tonight, we’re on our way back to Chicago from the Big Easy, riding on Amtrak’s City of New Orleans. The trip – and traveling on Amtrak – has been a tremendous success.
I consume media. This year I decided to make an annual list and try to reflect on it.
As we watch Elon Musk slowly dismember Twitter through sheer incompetence, I’m terribly sad for what’s likely to be lost.
This was not the full, bustling downtown I’d come to love. It was something lesser.
Measure twice, cut once – and when you cut, cut carefully. But seventeen year old me had trouble doing those things.
After two week here, my wife and I have turned to our regular traveler’s conversation: Could we live in Paris happily?
This is all possible because France strives for a monoculture. Yes, there are lots of immigrants, and they have different ideas about what a proper society should be like, but the mere fact that this is a struggle – are you allowed to wear a hijab to school? – is an indication of how France views itself.
Now that we’re about to kick off week two of our French residency, the shine is coming off. We’re beginning to understand some of the realities of French life.
The big headline: Paris is a pretty easy place to be as a human. The streets are clean, the public transit is ubiquitous, car traffic is limited to 18 miles an hour, there are lots of little shops for just about everything you can imagine – everything is at a human scale.
