The Year Earth Changed

A stellar new documentary filmed during the unprecedented past year, when all of humanity withdrew indoors and nature began to recover.

The next hurdle

2.5 million people are receiving doses of a COVID-19 vaccine every day in the United States. New York City will be 100% open on July 1. My mind is struggling to catch up.

Friendship

David Whyte issues an important reminder of what is most important in the end.

Facial recognition can predict political orientation

Will technology know us better than we know ourselves?

The other coup

The latest must-read article by Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

NationBuilder Year in Review 2020

Celebrating incredible leaders around the world doing remarkable work using NationBuilder.

Four Corners included on Relapse Records 30-year anniversary sampler

December 23 Music

The seduction of conspiracy theories

"Suffering the distress of an illusion rather than the true distress of my life."

My favorite albums of 2020

A to-the-point list of some of my favorite released this year, in no particular order.

December 10 Music

The Eternal Resonance

2020 has been an awful year in many, many ways. One bright spot has been the release of some truly stellar albums—some expected and anticipated, others out of the blue (at least to me).

November 12 Music

Ice Fleet

April 10 Listening

Range: Why generalist triumph in a specialized world

by David Epstein

April 30 Reading