December 2011
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When years from now I remember this sparsely lettered time when I didn’t make time for whole books, when I only read poetry for pleasure, and only two poets at that, that it was the biggest, most meaningful commitment I could keep in the the monsoon of my early adulthood.
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Dear OKCupid,
Yours is a brilliantly conceived and well executed product. That said, there is a dynamic on OKCupid that makes it unlikely that serious, eligible people will engage each other successfully, whether for the purposes of a romantic relationship or something more casual…
Some high percentage of messages sent through your site are discourteous, offensive or generally low quality...
You Say You Want a Devolution? →
Really interesting read on cultural stagnation in the US. Perhaps the most compelling observation is that style companies today have a bizarre set of incentives. On the one hand they must produce constant novelty to drive consumption and growth. On the other, they must keep things predictable and constant enough that they don’t have to deal with fundamental re-invention and the risk of...