That’s why no one showed up at the white supremacist march yesterday, they were afraid of pictures, of having their lives ruined. You’re building your reputation online every damn day, and ironically it’s the young who realize this, those who’ve grown up with the prying eyes of the internet, there are cameras everywhere, and if […]

Educated: A Memoir Every family is a cult. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to break out of it. I grew up fifty miles from New York City. My mother was the life of the party, my father expounded upon truth every day. It wasn’t until I went to college that I […]

Keep on-a rock’n me, baby It was not nostalgia, at least not until Miller’s encore, when he reeled off a bunch of hits. The guitar era is in the past. The blues era is in the past. But it came alive last night. What on the surface seemed a return to what once was, set […]

The STEM era is over. For twenty years we’ve experienced the denigration of the liberal arts. For twenty years we’ve been ruled by tech. For twenty years it’s been about entrepreneurship. Now it’s about thinking. About concepts. About ideas. Not changing the world with products, but analysis and influence. You can’t compete with the billionaires, […]