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In January 2019 I wrote out scores of prompts for thinking long term that I felt should inform the foundation I was later co-chair of, The Long Now Foundation. These axioms were only shared internally ...

Two years ago I caught someone trying to steal my car. They were doing it in a way that would not set off my alarm. That prompted me to do a bunch of research about the current state of the art of ...

Tips for philanthropy. For some people “Giving Money Away Can Be Harder Than Making It” so Roy Bahat, someone whose lifelong habit has been to give money away, has written up ...

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Retired after a varied career of programming, writing, and teaching, I live now in British Columbia and have the daily joy of ...

Patterns in Nature by Philip Ball University of Chicago Press 2016, 288 pages, 8.5 x 10 x 1.1 inches ...

I love the core question this piece “Navigating by aliveness” offers when wondering if you’re on the right track: “Does this feel like it’s taking me in the direction of greater aliveness?” Aliveness ...

Every tool has two functions. One is the job it was designed to do (aka the business end). The other is how it interacts with you, the user. Manufacturers optimize the first and often don’t give ...

Beggars of Life is Jim Tully’s 1924 hobo autobiography, a young Irish-American orphan’s first-person account of riding the rails through early-20th-century America, written in stripped-down vernacular ...

Europe has made it clear they are siding with consumers instead of airline execs and just strengthened the continent’s protections for flyers. Compensation rates remain the same, but they’ve codified ...