'I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to make it interesting.'
Find Your People
Thank you to Bucknell University for inviting me to be this year's commencement speaker. And congratulations to the Class of 2025! Watch the speech on YouTube. Thirty-two...
How to Leave
View from the Lectern at Commencement before the ceremony begins The end of May and the beginning of June mean college and university commencements. New York...
EVENTS | Write About Now
Write About Now was voted "Best Open Mic" in the country by the National Spoken Word Awards. Don't miss the best poetry events in Houston!
Academia: Thoughtfulness With--and Without--Writing
Thursday’s Child Has Far To Go
I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain—until I met him.
CW: suicide, suicidal ideation, addiction
Thread by @AustenAllred: "This is a tweetstorm about things that have surprised me having started a school, coming from a non-educational background 1. Students’ brai […]"
Thread by @AustenAllred: "This is a tweetstorm about things that have surprised me having started a school, coming from a non-educational bacents’ brains are broken by our existing system. We’ve been reworked purely for extrinsic reward and forgotten […]"
My Life and My Life in the Nineties by Lyn Hejinian | East Bay Booksellers
New edition of one of the founding works of Language writingLyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia.
How we got here
Wherein our hero, in this publication's inaugural, dates himself (as if others would) in a reminiscence of computers and websites past.
50 Ideas That Changed My Life - David Perell
David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.
Future of Scientific Publishing: Interview with Mathïs Fédérico - Writing Scientist
It started as a week-long writing bootcamp, with participants writing together on a video call. The week was a great success and everyone wanted to continue, so they did another week — and are continuing ever since.
Ronny Chieng Address @ Harvard Class Day 2026 (Transcript)
Read the full transcript of Emmy Award-winning actor Ronny Chieng’s remarks to the Harvard Class of 2026 during the Harvard College Class Day on Wednesday, May 27th, 2026. INTRODUCTION RONNY CHIENG: Thank you. Keep it
Developing creative identity
I was a theoretical physicist from 1992 to 2007. It was a romantic activity, exploring the fundamental nature of the cosmos! I became a university professor, wrote papers and books, and got to explore some of the most beautiful ideas ever discovered. In parallel, I also developed a fascination with the social systems humanity uses to make knowledge. Systems like the university or peer review are immensely deep inventions: our discovery system is itself one of the great inventions of humanity! But I believed a radically better discovery system must be possible. I became obsessed with this idea, eventually giving up tenure to work on it1. My first big project was to write a book helping develop and spread the fundamental ideas underlying the modern open science movement.
"There is a contrast between my biological development, confidently realizing its in-built norm, and my fumbling psychological development, realizing partially..one among many apparently possible orders .. Learning what to want is the most radical, the most painful and the most creative art of life"
I tried to write down things that surprised me while writing my own PDS. Here it goes: blog.sgo.to/2026/03/06/things-that-surpri…
On Community Gardening
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