Analemma
[Image: Patricia Highsmith in New York in the 1940s. From …
Illogical resolutions
The inspired 3%
Rescheduler detection
Dessert taxonomy
Red, wine, and blue
Some structural problems with collecting
A good landmark always stands out
Closer still
Whether we agree with the Greek poet that ‘Sometimes it …
The user is the final link
With saying
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is …
Life goes both ways
The methods filter
The last goodbye
The lyrical proverbs
Panta Rhei, for light and living
On the dignity of multiple
The superlatives of the L.H.C.
At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary …
Following
[Image: Concept for the Stockholm Public Library. Commenters point out …
Gladwellian rule for public speaking
A lot of people have this strategy where if they …
A city organized in black and white
Rise and fall of the boombox
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning …
Expressing wild ideas
Gladwellian rule of conduct
A contract of constraints
Human-centered prepositions
Design through immersion
The most important part of the story is the part …
On a historical word choice of Dave Eggers
The Christmas Tree lot
Wiat
Susan Sontag. Photographer: Peter Hujar. “One can’t possess reality, one …
Destination memory
Food as rock and roll
Sit up and address a machine
One tenth of a percent
Make meaningful things
Slow City movement
Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the …
Enforced listening moments
A people pattern
Inevitable versus optional
The rhetoric of enumeration