Category: Living Deliberately

  • The Overachieving Octopus

    The Overachieving Octopus

    5–8 minutes

    My morning started simply enough. I finished the crossword I’d fallen asleep working on the night before. I got Wordle in four. I made a cup of coffee and opened the shades to let the sun in. I stood for a moment and noted how its light lined up with the cars on the street.…

  • Permission to Play

    Permission to Play

    6–9 minutes

    On losing the joy in work, and giving yourself permission to tinker your way back to it.

  • Ground State

    Ground State

    5–8 minutes

    A ferry ride from Boston to Provincetown, and a borrowed idea from physics for what it feels like to strip away performance down to your lowest-energy, most essential self.

  • Shedding the Canvas

    Shedding the Canvas

    6–9 minutes

    A Wednesday afternoon with Pollock and Duchamp at MoMA, and unlearning the corporate instinct that a day only counts if it produces something.