“To hell with more, I want better”

I wrote a newspaper column—for a physical paper!—for almost 4 years, beginning in 2013. There are maybe a dozen or so of those columns that are worth revisiting, now from what feels like a historical perspective. I’m going to republish them relatively unedited, except for a clunky sentence or two, since I often had to edit a lot for length. I’m preserving my old thinking, unedited, as cringe as it…