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Sneezing Over Sushi (On the Cult of Productivi …
The New Yorker made me laugh out loud this morning with their poking fun at the ever-escalating ‘cult of productivity’ in this country. In their Daily Shouts column, “3 under 3”, Marc Philippe...
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Another Week Ends: Technologic Prophecies, Bad …
1. If only I’d held off on writing about sushi and productivity a couple days, I could’ve leaned on Leon Wieseltier’s masterful column for The New York Times Book Review, “Among the Disrupted.” It...
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On Playing Catch Up (In Case You Missed It)
God bless Portlandia. Their first season contained a skit that has proven to be more than a little prophetic. In case you missed it (ICYMI): On the surface, Fred and Carrie are emphasizing how people...
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Scientific Wedding Vows and the Biggest Lie (a …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5HkuhSEnPQ Valentines Week is upon us and with it, a fresh crop of articles on how to love and be loved, never a dull subject. First up, an article in The NY Times...
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Another Week Ends: Carr’s Recovery, Forg …
1. You may have heard the news that NY Times reporter David Carr died yesterday. I remember watching the documentary Page One a few years ago and being struck by Carr’s straight-shooting personality...
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Simultaneously Frazzled and Fragile: Surviving …
It’s getting to the point where I’d almost rather not draw attention to articles like Frank Bruni’s “Best, Brightest–and Saddest?”. Not just because I wish their subject matter wasn’t as urgent as it...
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Nerd Alert! The Curious Rehabilitation of Geek …
Of all the reversals we’ve seen take place in our culture of late, one of the most unexpected has to be what’s happened with “nerds”. If you had told me in 1988 that the group of oddballs who sold me...
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Penn Faces and Campus Tragedies: More Notes on …
Here’s why I didn’t want to write about Julie Scelfo’s recent article “Campus Suicide and the Pressure of Perfection” in The NY Times: It is not because we’ve written about the phenomenon too many...
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Doubtful Gamblers, Religious Agnostics, and Ho …
However much attention it once received, “Pascal’s Wager” doesn’t seem to get much traction in today’s God debate/discourse. I’m referring to the idea put forth by the 18th century Jansenist sage...
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From the Archives: Not Much of a Technology Pe …
Been a while since we’ve talked about this, or heard from this guy. So here you are, a classic DZ technology rant. Throwback! We were heading in the same direction, an awkward number of steps apart,...
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