Author: ps pirro

• Crawl Space

  When it rains you can smell the earth that lies a scant few inches beneath the kitchen floor, in that half-jacked crawl space of red…

• Finite World

  If you’ve been reading here a while you likely know I’m not much enamored of the cult of productivity. My antipathy pre-dates this blog, but…

• Not Even Past

  The Delta Variant is a reality made by cultural claims scratched into our minds. A certain type of American freedom is worth the death of children –…

• The Other Left-vs-Right

  I was introduced recently* to the work of Iain McGilchrist, philosopher, poet, psychiatrist, polymath, best known for his 2009 book The Master and His Emissary,…

• Who’s Utopia is This?

  I keep thinking about something Margaret Atwood said when I interviewed her in 2017: Every dystopia is someone’s utopia. So whose utopia is this? Ann Friedman, Whose…

• Inertia

  Think deeply about what you want to put back into your life. This is our chance to define a new version of normal, a rare…

• Rules for Showrunners

  When I first encountered the word “showrunner” I thought it referred to the person who went for coffee and bagels for the tv production crew.…

• Who Watches the Watchers?

  Near the end of his new book, After the Fall, Obama White House adviser Ben Rhodes writes of a meeting between Obama and Facebook CEO…

• A Radical Absence of Certainty

  I went to the library this week and came home with Carlo Rovelli’s Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, recommended in a recent newsletter by Austin…

• This Rigged Game

  A locally-owned food-based business in my community found itself in hot water on social media this week after announcing it would be closing on Sundays…