The Dizziness of Insignificance
On Melancholy and Mark Haber’s Intoxicating Novel Reinhardt’s Garden
Dostoevsky’s Demons in the Modern World
The Enduring Prevalence of Dostoevsky’s Darkest Ideas
Automation & the Death of the American Worker
Why Workforce Fears Are Justified and Worse Than You Think
When Progress Dehumanizes Us
How Innovation Can Erode Human Connection and Development
An Open Letter to My Son
My Hopes, Fears, and Reflections as I Become a First-Time Dad
Language Learning: The LEGO Analogy
What Building with LEGOs Can Teach Us About Language Learning
The Prophecy of David Foster Wallace
Revisiting Wallace’s prescient ideas in today’s world
Expressing the Beauty in the Ordinary
How Effective, Colorful Prose Can Return Our Awareness to the Present
6 Takeaways From Learning a Second Language
Insights and Reflections from Studying a Foreign Language
Meeting Your Parents
Reflections on the Honorable Fallibility of Parents
Silent Cost of Inaction
How Choice Paralysis Undermines Your Potential
How to Be Human in an Anti-Human World
How Choice Paralysis Undermines Your Potential
Facing My Own Mediocrity
Reflections on Failed Mastery and Diversification