December 9, 2024
Breakfast for Eight Billion
Sometime in the 1980s, an unprecedented change in the human condition occurred. For the first time in known history,...
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December 9, 2024
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
At the rehearsal dinner I began thinking about Thomas Jefferson’s ink. My wife and I were at a fancy destination...
November 11, 2024
A Pattern of Noncompliance
For years, there have been clear signals that euthanasia providers in Canada may be breaking the law and getting away...
October 4, 2024
A tech stack for “deep work”
Riffing on Matthew Crawford’s call for an “attentional commons” — attention as a shared resource we must...
October 4, 2024
Schools for building portfolios, not credentials
In many fields, during the hiring process a portfolio of demonstrated skill is as valuable, or even more valuable, than...
October 4, 2024
Towns, cities, architecture, transit, and street plans the way we used to build
I want to describe two maps. One map, produced by the programmer Vadim Graboys for his website DeapThoughts.com,...
October 4, 2024
A whole-of-patient approach to medicine
With admirable persistence, Western medicine has maintained its Enlightenment-era view of the human body as a machine,...
October 4, 2024
Houses, a chip factory, anything really in place of Portland’s Hillsboro Airport
Oregon governor Tina Kotek has good ideas for things to build, but she is having trouble finding a place to put them....
October 4, 2024
Nuclear reactors that won’t melt down
Clean, affordable, reliable energy is at the heart of economic growth. Fossil fuels have powered the ascent of...
October 4, 2024
A landscape we have to navigate together
When my son was born, his older sisters received a special present: a We-Do-It Bench. It’s a small, toddler-sized...