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The Abundance of Slowness

Learning to value smart work over hard work requires a paradigm shift, but…

Formula for Entrepreneurial Success

Five simple truths

What I Learned Building Medium (So Far)

As of November 2012

We’re now eight months into building Medium, having started in earnest in February of this year. In August, we launched what I call the “preview” version—which included viewing content publicly and creation for a…

Why I love Twitter and barely tolerate Facebook

You Can’t Start the Revolution from the Country Club.

The current fashion amongst alpha geeks is to reinvent many of the building blocks of the social web. Given that I’ve been obsessed with that particular intersection of technology and culture for a dozen years, I should be unequivocal in…

The world is socialist

When I was 17, I read Atlas Shrugged and it “changed my life." For about a year. In that book I heard that I was great and there were a few others like me, and most of the rest of the people were bullshitters. Grifters, looters, politicos, people who asked for us, the great ones, to work…

On Dilettantism and the Virtues of Pursuing Multiple Interests

A New Sincerity

This piece was first delivered orally at ‘Writers with Drinks’ at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco.

One of the most fundamental problems of our ages is that we’ve lost our trust in the very idea of truth…

We Are Always Alone

“You’re always alone. Because you can never really know another person,” I said to my to my roommate one night, during a…