Thought provoking

our lives, thanks to their finitude, are inevitably full of activities that we’re doing for the very last time. Just as there will be a final occasion on which I pick up my son—a thought that appalls me, but one that’s hard to deny, since I surely won’t be doing it when he’s thirty—there will be a last time that you visit your childhood home, or sw... See more

Google is an information access and utility brand, not a point-of-view brand. I might trust their chat bot to tell me “who won the Peloponnesian War?” but not “which health insurance to buy?” or “dissect last night’s NBA playoff game with insight and wit.” The trust and reassurance of a media brand and the people behind it matters. It will continue... See more

Said differently, we try to measure what we value.

But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.

It’s the dying that does it, always. I started here; I end here (we all end here). It is amazing how the death of someone you love exposes this lie you tell yourself, that there’ll always be time. You can go months or even years without speaking to a dear old friend and feel fine about it, blundering along, living your life. But discover that this ... See more