بواسطة Ersun Warncke | يناير 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Write your way to sharper focusAttention is becoming a rare and valuable currency. As the 24-hour news cycle shrinks to 280-character bursts of madness on X and TL;DR is a default, it is harder and harder to pay attention. Given how much attention we pay to attention,...
بواسطة Ersun Warncke | يناير 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
The first in a series on the cognitive benefits of writing The content below was originally paywalled.The ‘most wonderful time of the year’ has again passed, which is destabilizing regardless of whether you find the holidays something to be enjoyed or endured.For...
بواسطة Ersun Warncke | يناير 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Why GOATs are so 2024Making everything a competition and declaring sole winners is not just dumb — it’s is an obstacle to achieving, recognizing and building upon excellenceWatching Simone Biles at the Paris Olympics, the moment that stuck with me was not one of her...
بواسطة Ersun Warncke | ديسمبر 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
My band of the year (apparently)Music and writing have always fed into each other: music makes me want to write, writing inspires me to delve deeper into the music I love.One of the highlights of 2024 was the chance to see Depeche Mode on their Memento Mori tour. The...
بواسطة Ersun Warncke | ديسمبر 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Truman Capote’s classic short storyMy favorite Christmas story — touching and masterfully crafted.Sharing it with wishes that all may enjoy warmth, love and connection this season.
بواسطة Ersun Warncke | ديسمبر 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Reading the season with Truman Capote Although not a Christmas person, I am a massive fan of this bittersweet gem of a Truman Capote short story.It is crafted to perfection and the perfect degree of poignant. Whenever I get a chance (usually about once a year), I like...
بواسطة Ersun Warncke | ديسمبر 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Poetry with Joy HarjoThis week’s celebration of words is a little different as I’m looking at poetry. Poetry, while one of my great loves, is not an area of expertise, nor something I much studied formally. So please join me in the spirit of exploration and amateurish...
بواسطة Ersun Warncke | ديسمبر 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Race, love and what to do with God This week I’m thrilled to share an analysis of one of my favorite writers — one of the great thinkers, speakers and humanists of the 20th century: James Baldwin.Enjoy!
بواسطة Ersun Warncke | نوفمبر 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Appreciating Didion’s 1968 masterpieceTeaching requires intimate knowledge of a piece of writing, immersion in its world. When it’s great writing, this is a great pleasure. When it’s Joan Didion-circa-1968, there is almost nowhere else I’d rather be.Although...
بواسطة Ersun Warncke | نوفمبر 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
An appreciation of Oscar Wilde Appreciation begins with understanding.I hadn’t appreciated quite to what extent until I visited Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum after reading Laura Cumming’s transcendent memoir Thunderclap. She wrote — lovingly, evocatively...
