These habits help form what Hall and his co-author Andy Merolla, a professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, call the social biome, a way of thinking about the entire range of your social interactions. A healthy social biome is one with variety — among the types of people we talk to and the kinds of conversations we have — as well as... See more
Here’s a short excerpt of my essay about A.I. and creativity in the New York Times Magazine. Follow the link in the story to read the whole piece.
Endless thanks to @gailbichler , @billwasik and most importanly the amazing @annie76828 who designed the issue and still had the patience to discuss and improve every tiny detail of my... See more
It would make sense to say that, despite appearances, third-order vanity ratchets up the neuroticism, rather than quiets it down. But what I find most interesting about third-order vanity is that often its most prolific purveyors seem so lost in their role that they’re almost unaware they’re performing at all.
You don’t need a vacation — you need 6 months of ambitious underemployment, of relaxed discipline, of productive exploration, of intentional meandering, … of hard leisure.