sparks

Of course the thing about beginning again — about starting over midway through is that you have to be willing to watch yourself die.

I learned that from writing this newsletter.

Next week, it will be three years since I launched the cereal aisle, and I think the most important thing I have learned in the time since is that rebirth is on the other... See more

“Regret is an interesting concept. Often, it involves retroactively considering a decision we made under one set of circumstances and judging it unfairly by our current ones.”

Do you understand his temperament as an act of denial or an act of acceptance?

What an interesting question. I’ve never been asked that before. I suppose I understand his temperament mostly as a great gift.

I’m not trying to deny my father the credit he deserves. I know my father made a great many decisions about the kind of life he wanted to live... See more

What’s Missing Says More: The Semiotics of Omission

We spend our lives surrounded by signals. Most of them are obvious—what someone says, what they wear, the metrics a company puts in a slide deck. But some of the most telling information comes not from what’s there, but from what’s missing.

A woman on a dating app with only headshots is probably... See more

I feel a wave of dystopia whenever I confront the intellectual inconsistency of highly educated people.