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Immersed in 'The Art of Immersion'
The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories by...
Love in a Time of Algorithms
In last Sunday's New York Times Jonathan Franzen wrote about the ways love, technology, and consumerism are growing blurred. We...
Literacy in the Digital Age: Conclusion
I do not have a rabbit to pull out of a hat. The situation is complicated. But the situation of...
It's Journal Month
I made that up, I guess, but why not? I love reading journals, diaries, and notebooks, especially of writers I...
The Outrageousness of Academia
Some of our stories are funny, others are sad, and some are terrifying. What is the most outrageous experience that...
5 Reasons Why I (Depressingly) Don't Miss the NYTimes
I love the NYTimes. I believe in the NYTimes. But sadly, and somewhat surprisingly, I don't miss the NYTimes. Since...
Making Failure Safe
I’ve been chewing on Adapt, Tim Harford’s latest. (He’s the Undercover Economist.) It’s a wide-ranging survey, but the basic idea...
Student Conduct: Conceal and Carry
When I was a kid growing up in Iowa, my Uncle John and my dad taught me how to shoot...