Coffee vs. beer: which drink makes you more creative?

Bradley Manning and the Two Americas

(5-21-14, author’s note: This was written and published before Chelsea Manning announced her…

The tyranny of digital advertising

I don’t come from advertising. I have an eclectic, unusual background that includes training as a…

Become the Best Web Developer You Can Be in 1 Simple Step

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From Kanye to Hemingway

9 Experiences For Sparking Creativity

The musician as an artisan in a digital economy

Metaphors

…all of this was difficult, amazing, perplexing, astonishing—but so was the laying of the railroads and the sending of telegraph signals across the ocean. [Edit] From the first, and in no small part…

Stanley Kubrick discusses 2001 in Playboy

Playboy: Much of the controversy surrounding 2001 deals with the meaning of the metaphysical symbols that abound in the film — the polished black monoliths, the orbital conjunction of Earth, Moon and sun at each stage of the monoliths’ intervention in human…

Tom Standage: “Go back over your writing again and again”

Thoughts on Zona by Geoff Dyer and Andre Tarkovsky’s Stalker

Dyer: And what about you? Do you feel that the style you’ve arrived at is some sort of compensatory thing? Did you start out to be a straight-down-the-line novelist?