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What people who do write do understand 14 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
What people who do write do understand: Woody Allen recently: What people who don’t write don’t understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don’t. It proceeds from your ...
The smallest talk 24 May 2013 | 09:08 pm
The smallest talk: Exchanging small talk with people we’ve just met may be an unfortunate necessity, but with people we already know, it seems to suggest that they’re people to whom we have nothing t...
Byrne on bypassing waffling 1 Apr 2013 | 08:18 pm
Byrne on bypassing waffling: David Byrne on his remote collaborations with Brian Eno: The unwritten game rules in these remote collaborations seem to be to leave the other person’s stuff alone as mu...
Inexactitude 16 Mar 2013 | 02:02 pm
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Li...
Big 14 Feb 2013 | 05:54 pm
In the future, you have access to all your data. Memory, or the lack thereof, is no longer discussed. It is only assumed, a feature of modern life, since you can now relive all your past data as exper...
On the origin of manners 4 Feb 2013 | 06:12 pm
On the origin of manners: Simon Heffer reviews, or rather is offended by, a new book on the origin of manners: As I wandered through this increasingly unfathomable book — if it has a thesis, I for o...
The grand time hack 3 Feb 2013 | 07:46 pm
The grand time hack: The times displayed on Grand Central’s departure boards are wrong — by a full minute: This is permanent. It is also purposeful. The idea is that passengers rushing to catch tra...
Urban unattentional 1 Feb 2013 | 07:30 pm
Urban unattentional : British psychologists report that those who live in cities have a certain diminished power of attention compared with those who don’t: [T]he brains of people in remote places s...
[Image source: “Oliver Twist,” “The Catcher in... 30 Jan 2013 | 08:56 pm
[Image source: “Oliver Twist,” “The Catcher in the Rye” from the Fictitious Dishes series, Dinah Fried. “The photographs in this series, Fictitious Dishes, enter the lives of five fictional characters...
Life, underlined 25 Jan 2013 | 10:46 pm
Life, underlined: In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They were not necessarily the same sentences the professors pointed out, which would tu...
