Category: links

• The Dangerz

  I have several alternative lives that exist only in my head. (“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should…

• Slack

  Oliver Burkeman says cut yourself some.

• A Real Person Doing Real Things

  Suzanne Slomin is a farmer and baker who runs a small bread bakery in Vermont and has some things to say about work and running a small…

• Women’s Work

  My morning scroll: I went from this to this. Because you gotta fight the patriarchy, and the pet hair, too.

• That Does Not Make You Brilliant; It Makes You a Sociopath

  In her essay, “A Thousand Rivers,” award-winning film director Carol Black writes of Iain McGilchrist, a psychiatrist and neuroimaging researcher and author of the groundbreaking…

• A Useful Skill in a Tangible Situation

  “Giulietta, you don’t have enough money to eat tonight,” Glen said, bringing her down to Earth. Then he asked her a question that has since…

• The Atmosphere Doesn’t Care

  How much difference would it make, really, if every coal-fired power plant in the United States were to shut down tomorrow when US coal producers…

• People Who Know Aren’t Talking

  “There is no such thing as nonfiction. There is no such thing as truth. People who really know aren’t talking, and the people who don’t…

• One Big Workhouse

  It may be my bias, or my imagination, or my distaste for toil, but from here America looks like one big workhouse, “under God, indivisible,…