Category: and so it goes

• 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…

• Waiting 2.0

  I think virtually everyone, except perhaps the very Zen or very old, goes through life haunted to some degree by the feeling that this isn’t…

• Oops, Out of Time

  The U.N. IPCC report on climate change was devastating. But it came on a busy news day, what with the governor of New York resigning…

• Possibilities Still Within Reach

  The sooner we let go of our overinflated sense of importance and grasp that we’re just one civilization out of many, going through the familiar…

• Life During Collapse

  What you’re feeling is exactly how it feels. It’s Saturday and you’re thinking about food while the world is on fire. This is normal. This…

• Not Junk

  There is a young-ish tree in my yard that is enveloped in grapevine, for which I must take some responsibility. I’m a neglectful yard-keeper and…

• Listeners Like You

  I work in public radio. It’s an on-again, off-again relationship that began long ago at a community station in Boulder, where I volunteered for a…

• Note to Self

  Writing is the process by which we often discover we don’t know what we are talking about.  Farnam Street Reading Better