ISABEL PASSOS SACHS

A lot of people do care about evolving as a person.

LARRY: [Laughs]

CAZZIE: So better to be unhappy and have thoughts that can inform the writing.

LARRY: Yes.

CAZZIE: That’s really good parenting advice

The whole thing about the Kardashians — the resistance they’ve kind of induced in people — is that it doesn’t feel consensual. You absorb information about them whether you want to or not.

Google is constantly interpreting you. It swaps in synonyms, personalizes results based on your history, and decides what you probably meant rather than returning what you typed. Most of the time that interpretation is invisible. These tools are how you override it.

“Imagination is key. I keep thinking about the immediate postwar years in Britain when the country was ravaged, there were bomb sites everywhere, people needed roofs over their head and food to eat, schools needed to be rebuilt, teachers found. And yet, the Arts Council was established at precisely that moment and an economist, John Maynard Keynes,... See more