#368: The Opposite of Chaos
Min Jin Lee and Greek antonyms.
#329: Puppy Superstitions
Or, what I learned about creative routines from my dog.
#327: Tin Men and Unintended Symbols
On reading The Annotated Wizard of Oz.
#325: Ewok Banquets and Hobbit Joy
On strife and joy in stories.
#324: Fast-twitch, Slow-twitch
Distance-running, creative types, and a DNA test.
#317: An Election Diary
Notes from working the polls.
#316: A Marvel, An Obfuscation
Thoughts on developing film.
#308: Three Meditations on Tools
Hara's knives, Steinbeck's pencils, and more thoughts on exactness.
#280: Flywheels
Positive compounding in everyday life.
#273: An Artist on Your Terms
Who gets to define your art?
#272: Sky Ladders
Thoughts on obsession and art.
#269: Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer
What I tell students at the schools I'm visiting.
#266: Selective Environmenting
Lessons from fermentation.
#247: On Maintenance
Learning the virtues of yard work.
#236: On Efficiency
Downsides to a hyper-optimized life.
#217: Eclipse Tripse, Part 2
#194: End of the Tour
#192: Re-Dedication
#173: They Keep Me Surrounded
#144: On Receiving Feedback
#126: Writing is Relationship
#115: What's Happening
#79: Toward the Setting Sun
#55: Everything Happens
#27: A Letter
To myself on my thirtieth birthday.
#26: Yurt Life
Dispatch from a round dwelling in the Catskill Mountains.
#24: The Road is Already Written
#23: Ducks on the Lake
What Twin Peaks and Girls have in common.
#21: The Questions We Ask
Competitiveness, abundance, and being a Human in New York.
#14: No One Is To Use the Stereo
#12: On Gathering and Digging
#7: People Shaped Algorithms
#6: The Part That Loves
Sharing out of love versus the desire to be loved.