General
Whenever I read a book or an article about politicians, it feels like one key thing I’m supposed to take away is their ability to read tea leaves.
Successful politicians are allegedly uncanny in their ability to ride whatever wave is carrying the biggest tide, not just at that moment but in moments ahead.… Read the rest
In case you were wondering, you should go see Black Panther.
By now, you’ve heard that from everyone you know, several times a day. And you should listen to them. If you don’t, I get it – some people just don’t like hype.… Read the rest
It is our nature, generally, to be really bad at measuring progress over time.
We wince a bit when uncles and aunts tell us how much we’ve grown, until we go back to our bedroom doorframe every birthday morning, and notch another pencil mark a few inches above last year’s mark.… Read the rest
In college, dudes spent a lot of time talking about how many women they’d slept with.
It was common. Standard, even.
It’d be a bunch of guys sitting around in someone’s apartment, pre or post-club, talking about how bad some girl was, and how she was up on them, and how she wanted it bad.… Read the rest
This is one we probably won’t agree on, but I don’t think James Damore should’ve been fired. I remember hearing about his memo on NPR, thinking “ugh, what an idiot.”
The memo was described as one where a Software engineer tried to justify the under-representation of women in technology, or at least at Google.… Read the rest
The biggest evidence of terrorism’s idiocy is its pursuit of lost causes. Yes, they succeed in causing terror, but then what, materially? I’m less concerned with “what do they hope to achieve?” and more with “how can they possibly hope to achieve it?”… Read the rest
I wrote something a while back – a pretty sad piece, actually – where I recalled thinking America was the capital of the world. No one had told me so. I hadn’t read it in a book or heard it in a song or anything.… Read the rest