January 26th, 2021 · Be the first to comment Last May, Tim Ferriss interviewed the writer Michael Lewis. Early in the episode, Lewis said that…
A reader recently pointed me toward the 1999 obituary of the respected legal scholar David Mellinkoff. He flagged, in particular, this passage: “After the war,…
I’m pleased to officially announce my new book: A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload. It comes out March 2nd…
One of my colleagues at Georgetown recently pointed me toward a 1902 letter that Theodore Roosevelt sent to his son Kermit, who at the time…
December 23rd, 2020 · One comment Andrew Gelman is a professor at Columbia University with a joint appointment in the department of statistics and political…
December 15th, 2020 · One comment Earlier this week, I published an essay in the New Yorker about Salesforce’s proposed $28 billion acquisition of Slack.…
December 11th, 2020 · Be the first to comment Not long ago, I received a note from a reader named Shandel who wanted to share…
December 3rd, 2020 · Be the first to comment In October, I wrote a blog post suggesting a framework for the social internet in which…
Around 2010, a curious new term arose in obscure but energetic internet chatrooms: autonomous sensory meridian response. ASMR, as it was soon abbreviated, described a…
My latest article for The New Yorker, published on Tuesday, is titled “The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done.” It’s not, however, really about…