‘Tis a melancholy experience for anyone who browses through this great medium, to see so much content of low and dubious quality, so much wasted time and energy, so much gaming and spamming and jockeying for attention. A once powerful conduit of ideas and insight, a meeting place of the world’s sharpest minds tackling the [...]
overcoming expectations
Before you read my Résumé/Manifesto, I want to call your attention to a recent essay by Paul Graham, a successful computer programmer and writer, who first came to my attention a few years ago via Arts & Letters Daily. (Graham’s essay about essays has stayed with me ever since; it’s why I call my posts [...]
