Are you a Tolkien fan?
This is an excellent (but sad) article about how the stories of Middle-Earth were created. However, it's only available to NYTimes subscribers. You can ask me for a gift article, and I'll try to provide.
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Stepfanie Tyler: Designing a Life
These remarks are excerpted from a long post by Stepfanie... You are not what you post. You are not what you intend. You are not what you dream about becoming someday when the circumstances are finally right. You are what you choose, especially when no one is watching, especially when
Sam Kriss on AI's weird writing style... in December 2025
This article is very much of its moment.... I expect AI's writing will evolve and fracture... but it's a fascinating story about communicating. "Before too long, essentially all writing might be A.I. writing. ... If we’re going to turn over essentially all communication to
Our Political Situation explained by Prof. Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia Journalism School
David A. Brown recently shared on LinkedIn: Cobb kept coming back to one year: 1965. If you want to understand why our politics feel so volatile now, he said, you have to start there. In a short stretch of that year, Lyndon Johnson signed two laws: The Voting Rights Act,
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Leveraging Surprise
So I want to blog whenever I learn something. Managing a blog post and giving credit to the source: those activities push my fresh learning deeper into my mind. They get documented! I leverage blogging to learn, just as Pablo is leveraging surprise to share news. How a YouTube Trend
Adam Tinworth: The Challenge for Journalists Today
Adam is a Journalist and Journalism Professor. These words are from his post: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/10/report-and-connect-a-manifesto-for-the-survival-of-journalism-in-the-ai-age/ "The social platforms ate our lunch in the 2010s because they offered connection, and then let us pipe our content into the connection they’d let users build. Building a
Science Versus Debate
I was at a cocktail party this week, and one woman announced she would obtain no more COVID vaccinations because "she and all her friends were getting diabetes from them." She is, of course, talking about the type of diabetes we often get late in life when we&
Kevin Kelly has got me thinking about thinking
I tend to think of intelligence as the ability to think, but Kevin Kelly points out that HOW we think can vary wildly. * We have 'world models' versus 'working memory.' * We have 'logical reasoning' versus 'planning.' Some of his categories, such as
Brian Eno answers question: What is art?
I agree with Eno's embrace of all crafts as "art," and I love his characterization: ART IS SOMETHING WE DO TO CHANGE OUR MIND. I don't completely agree with his description of art-making as "grown-up play." I think art is often driven
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