David Foster Wallace

Why We Care What Other People Think About Us ?

Bill Gates: Favorite Books of 2016

Reading is my favorite way to learn about a new topic.

Capote was widely traveled as a child, attended 3 high schools, out clubbing and sneaking into clubs as a teen. That guy got around, no navel gazing in him.

Fitzgerald, another traveler, moving around a lot in his youth, bouncing between the US and Europe.

I haven’t read the Easton Ellis piece yet — it’s bookmarked with hundreds of others that I may or may not get to.

But I already know that I wouldn’t have a meaningful or interesting response because I don’t really like him and the only stuff I’ve read by Foster Wallace is the Kenyon commencement speech, which I really liked…

Mr. Ali,

If you wouldn’t mind stepping behind this screen over here, sir, the International Olympic Organizing Committee would like to have a word with you.

Literature —Some of The Longest Sentences In The English Language

I love long sentences when they are grammatically pristine; they are beautiful and wit. They force the reader to concentrate on the messages. Below are some examples of LONG sentences.

This is Water. This is Oil.

Firstly, Mr. Ellis, I want to say that I respect what you have done in your creative career. As far as I can surmise, you approach your writing and other artistic endeavors (like trying to create a DIY film on a shoe string budget in 20 days) as the crafts they deserve to be. You…

Modernism, Post-Modernism, Katherine Mansfield

Know what you worship

When I wrote last week about kids & cake I was thinking about the systems that influence how people learn. Today I got a perfect complement in This is Water, an essay by David Foster Wallace where he explores what it means “to exercise some control over how and what you think.”

The Toolbox Fallacy

a quick meditation on one of my common procrastination traps