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Fisher’s Island

Essays on attention, ambition, and the slow work of staying human.

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The Standing Order, No. 3

What’s actually in my rotation.

50 Things I Know

A notebook of lessons I’ve learned the hard way.

When Every Version of My Life is Plausible

The machine can make every possible future feel imminent. It cannot tell me which one is mine.

Free Agent

I thought I was practicing patience. I may have been waiting for permission.

The In-Between Things

What my twentieth reunion revealed about friendship, memory, and the parts of a life that only make sense looking back.

The Standing Order, No. 2

What's actually in rotation for Father's Day

A Tradition Like Many Others

Golf is really the excuse. The trip is the occasion - for friendship, ritual, and time together before life turns people into names in a phone.

The Standing Order, No. 1

A first summer edit of things worth wearing, using, reading, and playing.

The Authenticity Trap

The advice we've all been given - be authentic, know yourself, show what's real - is no longer enough. Here's what replaces it.

Four Years

On sobriety, attention, and what still pulls at me