weekly Go Flip Yourself

Not only do we have useful research that breaks the rules; we also have useless research that follows the rules. You can develop theories, run experiments, gather data, analyze your results, and reject your null hypotheses, all by the book, without a lick of fraud or fakery, and still not produce any useful knowledge. In psychology, we do this all the time.

• the royal society impact

• long lasting cultural impact

An ode to magazines:

• you're entering a universe that's only there

• convey a feeling, an amplitude, a point of view

• it's an opportunity for meaning-making

• what if Taylor Swift has a magazine?

• all this is hard (an essay, a song) it takes time

• the inward search for emotional truth; connecting with the source -- it's not about the money

• doing it for yourself is underrated these days

• celebrate the source, the art

• a deeper definition of music journalism: to do that well means: really caring; be in it; in that scene

There is something about this coexistence and codependency of the public and the private which feels even more important now than it was in our last Gilded Age.