I escape into visions, tell myself pretty stories. If only I could be somewhere else, the place I'm picturing ☁️🌥⛅️🌤
I open my eyes widely. This energy enters my body. It’s in me. There. I’m present I think.
In these polarizing times of #MeToo, a new website celebrates healthy hook-ups in a tricky dating landscape. Maybe healthy dialogue and conversation can be celebrated too.
On assignment in Paris - a book launch held at the Crazy Horse, in celebration of human pleasure against religious dogma, of course.
I visited Cape Town for a week at the beginning of 2019. Here are some things I did, which I can recommend.
Normalcy! Politeness! Coward! My head. I swear I’ll explode. I leave her alone.
Maybe my love evaporates like rain into the atmosphere. But it can always rain again
I smiled, relaxed, backed away; I tried to communicate that I wasn’t desperate, didn’t need anything, but could entertain her company, if interest was reciprocated.
From childhood through adolescence and beyond, the fictional characters that defined my romantic interest.
It’s one of the fanciest places in the city. She looks amazing. I’m underdressed, intimidated, but ready at least to be charming.
In death, we find rebirth. In this case, through a new god of fertility and sex. A journey to Paris’s Pere Lachaise.
Berlin is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to relaxing. The attitude exudes from the parks and into every daily situation.
Berlin lets you be. You can throw yourself into any fathomable interest, pursue any attraction or distraction (as the case may be).
She tells him about her loneliness, her disappointment in the night, in life. He registers it, hears her, nods. She loses herself in his moon-like grin.
We need to replace “Where are you from?” and “What do you do?” with “What culture do you relate to?” and “What do you care about?”
It’s easy to agree to disagree on topics like food and film, but when it comes to how society functions, wouldn’t it be nice to come to some sort of mutual understanding?
I've been a fan and subscriber to an online community for years called Late-Stage Capitalism. I love the critiques posted there of free markets gone awry.
I stayed up until 9am that night, much more sober than other nights I’ve stayed up until morning. I watched the New York Times odometer tick mercilessly toward the right…
Why, in an era of global polls, GPS and online banking is America still using this thing called the Electoral College for representative democracy? Why can’t democracy be direct?
Shouldn’t wi-fi be everywhere by now? Shouldn’t the connection be reliable? Am I expecting too much to think this should be considered a basic public utility?
I wonder what would happen if I just didn’t get off this train at Poznan, just stayed on without a ticket…
It’s one of the fanciest places in the city. She looks amazing. I’m underdressed, intimidated, but ready at least to be charming.
I am a black hole. I suck the life out of the world and I am always hungry, always wanting to consume people, to suck you dry like a vampire
It was my mistake to think I could talk so candidly with you about this stuff. I don’t know why I brought it up.
She is the sun to him. He feels warmth radiating from her face. The shy blinks of her eyes are like rays of light, a glow emanating somehow from inside him and out.
This is where my own fears and insecurities come in because as much as I miss this, I will always want more, will always wonder what else is out there…
Excerpts from a manuscript
Continuing Education
Will MacAskill focuses on human health, the evils of industrial farming, and existential threats to life on earth.
A diaspora occurs when a nation faces existential threat. The Armenians have experienced trauma that rivals any other.
MKBHD presents side-by-side analysis of the top smartphone cameras.
A critical look at the public shaming of Kanye West. Why is freedom of expression being attacked from the left?
Wendover Productions studies population density, and makes a case for us to live closer together.
The Nerdwriter contextualizes the brilliant 1998 film within the cultural zeitgeist of 2016.
AI will take over the economy. We should get prepared…
It’s helpful to recognize distinctions between places, to locate, identify and appreciate each one. Every place has a certain meaning, and every land and its people enrich the world in a certain way. So it does make sense to categorize the planet, to this extent. But what defines a place, exactly?