Last week, Dwarkesh Patel put words to an uneasy feeling that resonated with me: I think we’re at what late February 2020 was for Covid, but for AI. If you can remember back to February 2020, both the media and the general public were still in normal-times mode, discussing Trump’s impeachment, the Democratic primaries and […]
General
What is a #writesprint?
A #writesprint is a timed writing session. For a set period — often 60 minutes but sometimes shorter — you sit down and focus all your attention on writing. No checking Twitter. No Googling lyrics. No running to the kitchen for a snack. Just write. It doesn’t have to be screenwriting; you can #writesprint a […]
Professionalism in the Age of the Influencer
On October 24, 2019, I presented the Hawley Foundation Lecture at Drake University. It was an update and reexamination of a 2006 speech on professionalism I originally gave at Trinity University, and later that year at Drake. What follows is a pretty close approximation of my speech, but hardly a transcript. It’s long, around 14,000 […]
Craig is running a few minutes behind
Recording the podcast today, Craig apologized for being a few minutes late. I said, “No worries.” And felt a strange bit of deja vu.
The forgotten fine print
Whitney Pastorek writes in praise of the Credit CARD Act of 2009, which reins in some egregious business practices: The history of the credit card is fascinating, and I didn’t know much about it until I started researching. A few special moments stand out: Like how when the first general purpose credit cards started to […]
Living room rules
Clarification on my comments policy. Be polite. Don’t say anything you wouldn’t say in my living room