I noticed last winter that I have been answering ‘how are you’ with ‘busy’ for twenty years, and busy was just the word I...
The word busy: A social technology of evasion and status
Over the past twenty years, the word busy has emerged as one of the most...
Quote by Carl Jung: Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem...
When Loneliness Strikes Despite Company
Look, I noticed it last Tuesday. I’d been at a long lunch with three people I genuinely like, walked back...
People who reread their own messages after sending them aren’t always insecure — they may be running a final check on whether the version...
Rereading Your Messages: More Than Just Insecurity
Rereading your own messages after sending them is not automatically a sign of insecurity. Sometimes it is simply...
No one expected the generation born into technology to be so cautious of AI. Are Gen Z onto something older generations are missing?
The Unexpected Skepticism of Gen Z Towards AI
There’s something deeply counterintuitive buried in some recent Gallup figures, and it’s worth pausing to consider what...
I’m 38 and I realized last weekend that my dad has started walking me to my car when I leave his house — something...
The Quiet Geometry of Goodbye
I sat in the rental car for ten minutes at the end of my father’s road last weekend, engine off,...