Writing To Learn

The Swiss-Army knife of intellectual instrumentsFor the past couple of weeks, I’ve focused on how writing can help navigate and ameliorate internal states such as difficult emotions or persistent distractions.To continue too long in this (albeit useful) vein might...

Writing Attention

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,...

Writing Emotion

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...

In GEAR for the new year

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...

NYE Playlist

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...