Read my various short-form thoughts (sometimes of a long length) as they come to me.
Return of your working boy
I have been very absent from writing my pabulum here…
Why I like(?) Foucault
My sister, with some trepidation, once commented that I have…
Foiled! An addendum to unmistakable sentences
Let it be known from the outset that I have…
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I purchased The Half Has Never Been Told a couple…
Bullshit, humbug, and the 4th of July
I was just reading Harry Frankfurt’s 1986 essay “On Bullshit.”…
Talking with strangers (about real things)
Almost every single freshman I spoke to at Stanford this…
Unmistakable sentences
The queen, my lord, is dead. An unmistakable sentence. Not…
Ode to the sticky note
I keep a pad of sticky notes on my bedside,…
Reading for what, exactly?
Can you tell I’ve been thinking a lot about reading…
Books in my room
I did a semi-accurate tally. The calculations say: 666* books…
Obscure reads
I read a great number of very obscure books—that is…
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