Politics,
read clearly.
What’s really driving the way people speak, react, and respond.
Inspiration mythology has kept the opposite fantasy alive: the bolt-from-nowhere, the muse, the idea that creative people are simply wired differently.
There is a specific kind of quiet that exists before the rest of the house wakes up.
The benefit to them was, judging by their face, quite a lot.
You can tell almost everything about someone by watching them cook.
There is a version of this story that gets told as a cautionary tale.
There's a particular kind of grief that nobody really talks about.
Then I came across a new NPR/Ipsos poll of more than 2,000 adults that found only 51% of Americans had read a book in the past month.
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There's a conversation I had not long ago that I keep thinking about.
The most powerful tools for understanding the universe have always belonged to a small number of people.
