Do individual choices matter?
A particularly annoying argument has cluttered climate discourse: do individual choices matter in addressing climate change?
The Case Against Travel
Thoughts on leisure travel, overconsumption, and becoming better than we are.
How to build stronger relationships
On keeping in touch, strengthening relationships, and an app I never built.
On gems and fluff
In a better world of content, it would be easier to avoid fluff and easier to find real gems.
The Atlantic: How Mormons Became American
If you have any interest in the Church of Latter-Day Saints, McCay Coppins’ “How Mormons Became American” is an excellent read.
Modern Ruhles: “Everything is amplified”
“If you’re single, you’re extra single. If you’re married, you’re extra married. If you have kids, you extra have kids.”
On the Media: “This is Fine”
“In just as big losses don’t strike us as big losses, often big wins don’t strike us as big wins.”
Thoughts from the Walt Disney Museum
If you have interest in animation and find yourself in San Francisco, the Walt Disney Museum is worth a visit.
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
Welch’s calm rebuke is in my opinion one of the great moments in American rhetoric.
Kate Bowler on the loneliness epidemic
The stats on loneliness and its consequences are pretty scary, but it was Kate’s closing remarks that really brought the issue into focus for me.
Thoughts on “Parks and Rec”
Last night I finished watching the final season of Parks and Rec. Great show, great ending. Here are my final impressions.