Love for others what you love for yourself

A true meaning of selflessness

stepping into thin air

the perils of worrying about the perils of data-driven design

Myth and Menace in Prospect Park

“Ice pick dog stabber nabbed!” screamed the headlines. Here’s how I…

Zen for Non-Hippies: How I Optimize for Happiness at Work

On completely going offline at night

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve tried a new habit. Completely going offline at night.

On Reading, Forgetting, and Re-Reading

How I learned to appreciate re-reading books.

Live Longer: What You Can Learn from Elite Athletes and Why the Japanese Never Die

I played baseball for 17 years. I had incredible teammates. I spent thousands of hours practicing and training. And after my senior season, I was named an ESPN Academic All–American. (Press…

The Only Beating Drum

As Ramadan comes to a close, I have no doubt that I’ve grown in this past month. Day in and day out I watch everyone…

The Future of the Internet

The Consequences of a “Balkanized” Internet

The byline that can’t be bought

Not-a-schoolmarm’s manifesto on Trust and Truth for Brands

Punish the DOers

I struggle to understand the fairness in how the DOer, a person who quietly and efficiently gets the job done, is often…

The 4 m’s

When all else fails, an alliterative list saves the day (or a life)

I often joke that my moods as an adult are dictated in the same manner they were when I was a toddler. If I’m ever discombobulated, I check in on whether I need to eat…

Does Jeff Bezos signal a new golden age for journalism?

Where Does Our Soul Go?

What do our lives mean?

My Mom is dying of terminal cancer. After spending the last few days with her in Tennessee, I have to wonder, as we all do at some point, where do our souls go? What do our lives mean? Does our existence actually mean…

Future of Social is Functional

For office-goers, apart from going back home, lunch time is usually the most awaited time in the day…

The Future Of Newspapers

Is Medium the Future of the Media?

I love newspapers and magazines.

In fact, I have a history of being a bit obsessive about the printed word. I started a magazine in Seoul, South Korea for expats called ROKon…

The Consciousness of Death and the Death of Consciousness

The Magical Mystery Tour is dying…

Traditionally, political theories and ideologies have given primacy to the mass as a social entity, whose motives and actions are determined by…

Feminism As A Living Organism (a meditation.)

Feminism Is.

| “I travel in my mind….My body…

About Those Startling Government Phone Alerts That You Never Signed Up For

“What these…

Companions in Suffering

I had lunch on Sunday with a friend who runs a community project in one of the…

The Mountain and the Sea

Some reflections on ideology and theory

To what extent do people distinguish between the terms ‘theory’ and ‘ideology’ in political discourse? In our view, they each have radically different implications, namely an ideology is an a…

The Online High Street

How shared e-commerce baskets could save smaller online retailers

Amazon is a Great Big Problem for many small (and not so small) businesses trying to sell their products online. The main bone of contention seems to be…

Capitalism: “We hit ya and we give ya some”

One of the core contradictions of capitalism since its earliest phase of ‘primitive accumulation’ has been the need to bring together disparate individuals and populations while maintaining their atomisation and isolation from each other. For example, in…

How to carry on worrying but still learn to ‘love’ the interweb

Tovarich/comrade: are you sitting comfortably? Good, then we’ll begin…

Astute followers of my other blogs [who may have achieved double figures as we speak] will have noticed an understandable…

The Last Slice of Cold Pizza

I ate the last slice of cold pizza.

There, I said it.

I got in trouble recently for that and it feels great to get it off my chest.

The Savage and the Sieve

Why publishing platforms are not news outlets

Inner Andy Rooney #101

Files

Why do we have so many files? What happened to that glorious, paperless future we were sold? I happen to like paper, always have. Paper is diverse. Thick, thin, full of color or business black and white. Some of it’s glossy, which I never understood. Are…

Writing in an Office Makes Me Feel Like a Grownup

When it comes to writing, space matters

I wrote my entire dissertation at a small brown IKEA desk facing a small window in the upstairs master bedroom of our Cape Cod style house. I had two…

The dying days of capital and the inversion of reality

Guy Debord, in his major work, The Society of the Spectacle, argued that modern capitalism inverted the ontological order by placing the primacy of the image or representation over the ‘real’. This was a perspicacious and vital…