During the pandemic, I committed to exercising regularly. Here’s a simple snapshot of a year’s worth of data. The dropoffs happened after Thanksgiving and right before my dissertation defense. Need to work on maintaining the habit during the holidays and periods of stress.
The debate about AI’s effects has been running for three years and producing mostly heat. Not because the researchers are wrong. Because they are not studying the same thing. Here is the clearest version of what I mean. A major 2025 meta-analysis of 69 studies found that ChatGPT produces significant positive effects on academic performance,…
I heard this on The Moth Radio Hour. A five-year-old named Nina wanted to see her cousin’s body. Andy was four when he died, and he was her best friend. The adults around her, the chaplain Kate Braestrup among them, spent real energy debating whether to allow it. The reasons against were sensible. She was…
I want to tell you what happened the last time I walked out of a back-to-back meeting block with three things spinning in my head. I took a screenshot of an email with a deadline in it. I sent a three-sentence voice memo to myself, half-formed, about a project that had stalled. I forwarded a…
