Brad Barrish

truer words have never been spoken https://t.co/g5AKAG9RPF

I am comfortable with doubt and am constitutionally resistant to moral certainty, herd mentality and dogma. I am disturbed on a fundamental level by the self-serving, toddler politics of some of my counterparts – I do not believe that silence is violence, complicity, or a lack of courage, but rather that silence is often the preferred option when... See more

When you describe yourself as a “writer” but your writing has become hard to find, it creates a crisis not just of profession, but identity. Who am I, if not my content?

nothing survives the session boundary

“Humans of tomorrow will be AI orchestrators” is like saying, in the 90s, “Workers of tomorrow will be computer operators.” That would have seemed crazy, since most people didn’t yet see the need for having an email account. But it turned out to be a fact. Everyone has a computer on their desk or in their hand and they couldn’t do their job without... See more

I’ve sensed a thaw lately in the cosmos of letters: an energy, an urgency. Maybe it’s because people fear this might be the last good season before the end of the world, so we’d better get it all out now. Maybe it’s just because it’s spring.

The climate of respiratory health in the United States—which the CDC defines as “influenza-like illnesses” (ILI)—has crossed the “epidemic” threshold and is growing. The trend seems to be tracking exactly with the 2019-2020 respiratory season.