Virality Needs a Speed Limit
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The original New Mexican miscellany, since 1999
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What We Will Refuse to Build Again
Social media services should be leveraging what we learned in the earliest days of weblogs.
When Control Became Irrelevant
Incentives, identity, and consequence.
What We Built, From the Inside
On the assumptions we built into the first generation of the web.
Palantir’s “22 points.”
The not-so-subtle merger of software and state power
The Quiet That Erases
A curious thing has happened to scandal in America. It no longer accumulates.
In Praise of Boredom
A quick update from the domestic trenches.
Weather forecasting
An American reflection for those watching from afar.
The Escalation is Also the Point
What stands out in today’s news is not any single event.
Stress Fracture
Stress Fracture
Important.
Important.
Exhaustion is the point.
On weaponized outrage and the politics of burnout.
Enough
When stopping becomes clear.
This Is A Setup For Violence
Bad idea, in a sea of bad ideas.
Continuance
Placing care where it belongs.
The Country That Keeps Pretending This Is Normal.
There is a particular sound a republic makes when it is coming apart.
Overcast
Endurance when there is no contrast.
Light
On conditions and perception.
Morning
Beginning without rehearsal.
Evening
On ending the day without account.
Seasonal
On rhythm, pacing, and sustained work.
Time, Unharmed.
On boredom, patience, and unclaimed time
Without Absence
On solitude, restraint, and interior sufficiency.
Listening Without Urgency
On friendship, attention, and shared space.
Working Without Armor
On effort, attention, and leaving the day intact.
What is Present
What is Present
The Weight I Can Carry.
On strength, discernment, and the discipline of choosing what is truly yours.
Presence
On the power of being fully “there”.
Belonging, Reclaimed
How a life becomes its own place.
Not Belonging
How Identity Forms Outside the Family Story.
The Shape of a Voice
Forged in quiet, shaped in time.
The Discipline of Noticing
A journey into the discipline of seeing.
What You Build In Silence
A companion to Second Silence
Hands
Where truth settles when words fall short.
The Second Silence
Where the mind goes when the world finally stops shouting.
What We Keep, What We Let Go
What we hold, what holds us.
Roads Not Travelled.
The long work of becoming who you already are.
Hidden Strengths.
What rises out of the stillness of soul.
Creativity as Daily Oxygen
On making, sensing, and the soul-nourishment of expression.
A Day Without Bracing.
A small miracle of breath, light, and a day lived without tension.
On Waiting.
The quiet skill we rarely choose, but often need.
Light: A love affair.
Let’s take a small stroll together, following the quiet ways light moves through a life.
Tools.
What endures when the world speeds up.
Stillness.
An appreciation, as I head into the mountains today.
Between Seeing and Feeling
Translating light into emotion.
Snapshot: Season of Light and Shade
What the silence teaches.
Patience.
Nature reshapes. So do we.
Portrait of Native artist Michael Namingha.
I love this one.
A numinous moment.
Awe.
Election day thoughts.
And a note.