Almost everything you interact with is designed to interrupt your day. This is what the battle for attention boils down to: how long can someone or something interrupt you? Take a gander at your Screen Time usage, a feature literally created to quantify those periods of interruption. My most recent
There’s a Wall Street Journal story that occasionally makes its way around X from time to time. I saw it just last week again. The article isn’t groundbreaking, but it catches me every time. Basically, people aren’t “posting” as much. If you haven’t read, the Journal
When I saw Oppenheimer last summer, I remember being surprised to see a teenager whipping out his phone to record the Trinity test scene. It wasn’t the actual recording that shocked me. I’m used to the brightly lit phone in a dark theater even if my raised-in-the-early-00s brain
Joe Biden was the Too Old Candidate. Kamala Harris is the Hopeful Candidate. Donald Trump is the MAGA Candidate. J.D. Vance is the first ever Main Character Candidate. A symptom of chronic posting, the main character is someone who tweets a thought — often innocuous, but sometimes contrarian or downright
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I never know how to start one of these “hi!” posts, despite years of writing a newsletter. There’s a good chance that if you’re reading this, you’ve come across my work in Puck, my time spent co-hosting Downstream, or maybe you stumbled upon Musings on Mouse at