Boy do I wish I had been in Chicago last Friday 🎵
Boy do I wish I had been in Chicago last Friday 🎵
Currently reading: The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro.
It’s time. Let’s do this. 📚
It’s a glorious time to be an American tennis fan. Half of the US Open men’s & women’s semifinalists are American! Unreal. 🎾
Currently reading: All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart 📚
Finished reading: Middlemarch by George Eliot 📚
Currently reading: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake 📚
Currently reading: Range by David Epstein 📚
A brief, powerful interview with Uruguay’s former philosopher-president, who is now battling cancer. Though I disagree with him on many things, he has a lot of profound, simple wisdom to share: Humans can create infinite needs. The market dominates us, and it robs us of our lives. Humanity needs to work less, have more free time and be more grounded. Why so much garbage? Why do you have to change your car?
The power of journalism rises & falls inversely to journalists’ belief in the power of journalism. The more journalists are convinced of their world-changing power, the less anyone listens. The more they just do their job, the more people tune in.
Get out there right now & watch Esperanza Spalding & Milton Nascimiento’s beautiful Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. A stunning collaboration between a true great of Brazilian jazz & a young musical genius. 🎵