Remember the promise of jet packs? I’m not sure whether all the dancing on social media is because the world is in bad shape or the world is in bad shape because, but not exclusively because, of all the dancing on social media. We live in a world where a…

I have a book coming out. Probably in spring 2024. I can’t say much more about it until the publisher announces the thing but there you have it. I excerpted some of the early chapters here, long ago (like, a long long long time ago and, given all that has…

More dumb and less dumb 2021 both happened and didn’t happen. I mean it did, of course it did, I’m not delusional. I’m not a denier of time. And we know there are some people who do deny time, or its passage. The end is never good because the end…

Was a year that happened The plague has rendered time moot; we live in an age of timelessness and timefullness, one where the passage of time is both felt and not felt, where we are unaware of its passage and completely aware of how it diminishes us. In 2021 I…

…is a thing people who write on Medium write about on Medium I’m not happy with a lot of things. I’m not going to list them but suffice to say the state of Medium isn’t in the top, oh, 100 things I’m not happy with. Don’t flatter yourself, Medium writer. …

(a country song) I didn’t know you left me I thought you were in the bathroom You’ve been constipated lately Spending your time in the bathroom. I didn’t think you’d ever leave me. Maybe you weren’t suffering Or suffering another kind of suffering Maybe you were plotting Spending your time in the bathroom…

It’s true. I just remembered. I even had a blog. I wrote in it just recently because I felt bad. The post was mostly about guilt and neglect. That’s not a good way to feel about something you created and nurtured and pay for, annually. …

Not to make light of suffering But I was feeling it and I said it: Why did I say it? Why not? I present to you, THE WORLD. Exhibit A: It might seem Afghanistan has always been this way, and you might be right, and there are a…

Because business is business Many of you know me as a writer. And many of you also realize, probably, that writing doesn’t always pay the bills. The little ones and the big ones. That’s why I am in the midst of announcing my new consultancy. This is the website if…