December 9, 2024
Make Suburbia Weird
Packing up my grandparents’ suburban house this summer, I was confronted with an unsettling and alien phenomenon: a...
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December 9, 2024
The Tyranny of Now
On the evening of May 25, 1947, the fellows of the Royal Society of Canada — the country’s leading scientists,...
December 9, 2024
Can You Solve a Lifestyle Epidemic Without Lifestyle Gurus?
An avowed sun worshipper, the neurosurgeon Jack Kruse has skin the color of a Christmas ham. His cheeks emit a neon...
December 9, 2024
The New Control Society
Let me tell you two stories about the Internet. The first story is so familiar it hardly warrants retelling. It goes...
December 9, 2024
Breakfast for Eight Billion
Sometime in the 1980s, an unprecedented change in the human condition occurred. For the first time in known history,...
December 9, 2024
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
At the rehearsal dinner I began thinking about Thomas Jefferson’s ink. My wife and I were at a fancy destination...
November 11, 2024
A Pattern of Noncompliance
For years, there have been clear signals that euthanasia providers in Canada may be breaking the law and getting away...
October 4, 2024
A tech stack for “deep work”
Riffing on Matthew Crawford’s call for an “attentional commons” — attention as a shared resource we must...
October 4, 2024
Schools for building portfolios, not credentials
In many fields, during the hiring process a portfolio of demonstrated skill is as valuable, or even more valuable, than...
October 4, 2024
Towns, cities, architecture, transit, and street plans the way we used to build
I want to describe two maps. One map, produced by the programmer Vadim Graboys for his website DeapThoughts.com,...
