"Atlas is a browser, but it is not a web browser" Point three stood out to me in Anil's provocative piece. It's the only one I fully agree with, but unfortunately it's also the scariest. Especially... 15 days ago Good Reads
"If I forget how to be uncomfortable, I forget how to grow" The questions posed by this piece, and others like it, have been swirling around in my head lately. In it, Jenny (a fellow Torontonian!) wonders... 22 days ago Good Reads
16 years: what my wife has taught me about life (so far) People tend to glorify round numbers when they’re celebrating a milestone: 5, 10, 20 years. But something worth celebrating is worth celebrating in between those... 3 months ago Life
"Who benefits from what this technology does?" In a recent piece, Christopher Butler does a great job of putting into words how AI can, if left unchecked, enable the worst tendencies of... 3 months ago Good Reads
Greener on the other side: why I’ve switched to Android and why it stuck this time My iPhone 15 Pro is a marvel, but after over a decade of iPhone use, I am, frankly, bored. Apple products have become familiar to... 3 months ago Technology
"Motivation is weather, discipline is climate" Why are we lying to young people about work? The pendulum continues to swing, from the post-war grit of our parents' values, to the easy-going... 3 months ago Good Reads
“The art of happiness is also the art of suffering well” You wouldn’t think that a book about suffering is also, intrinsically, a book about happiness, but such is the case with No Mud, No Lotus.... 4 months ago Good Reads
"Someone that you'd high five but not hug" The more I learn about anxiety, the more I begin to see evidence of its presence all around. In the world, and in the lives... 4 months ago Good Reads
What do we listen for in music? One way to learn how to appreciate music is by starting with minimalism. At its core, listening to music means listening for changes. Minimalism explores... 4 months ago Audio
“If we expect nothing, we will get nothing” This is one of those posts that makes you feel like the world is trying to shake you out of a stupor. Matt Duffy is... 4 months ago Good Reads
We're rich in content but poor in concentration When's the last time you sat down and just...listened to music? Not as background for work, not while exercising, not during your commute. Just listening.... 4 months ago Audio
"I don’t want to hide my grief or my joy" Keith and I shared many classes in university, and I've been so happy and grateful to see him writing prolifically over the past year. We... 4 months ago Good Reads
"Capitalism is the machine that will do whatever it takes to prevent us from turning it off" More than two years after it was published, I still think about this provocative post by Ted Chiang. Will A.I. Become The New McKinsey? We... 5 months ago Good Reads
"The ceiling on my appreciation is high, but the floor is high, too" Sasha Chapin wrote about How to like everything more, and it made me think about how important it is to cultivate appreciation. A lot of... 5 months ago Good Reads
"I walk slowly on the race track, but I can climb a ladder" Collin Lysford, in a recent issue of his Desytemize newsletter, eases into a thoughtful discussion about intelligence (artificial and otherwise) through a baking analogy. Here's... 5 months ago Good Reads
"We only know how to value things that are scarce" Adam Mastroianni, writer of the unmissable Experimental History newsletter, recently shared some writing wisdom in a piece called 28 slightly rude notes on writing. Here's... 5 months ago Good Reads
A few things I've learned about writing If someone were to ask me how to improve their copywriting, this is what I'd tell them: The best writer is the one who can... 6 months ago Writing
Restore Logic Pro X files corrupted by Google Drive If you’ve ever stored Logic Pro X project files (.logicx) in Google Drive, you may have gone back to them after a while only to... 6 months ago Audio
Don’t have a guide for the responsible use of AI at your company? Now you do! I've written a shareable guide to using AI responsibly at a company—any company. Maybe even your company. You can find it at howweuseai.guide. It starts... 8 months ago AI
Sharing art with artificial intelligence Every time I sit down to write music these days, I’m visited by an unwelcome thought. Somewhere, right now, my art—music and writing—is being ground... 9 months ago AI
