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Review: Art of the Good Life

Early on, it wasn't clear that Art of the Good Life was going to be much different than countless other self-help books that promise the nirvana of disproportionate self-driven improvement that eventually leads...

Life After COVID-19

The drumbeat of unprecedented events come at a daily clip. Disney resorts, for the first time, shut down indefinitely. The stock market, with some of the biggest index drops ever and a place in macroeconomic...

Functioning Through a Pandemic

As of the first draft of this post, it's been 6 days since my company transitioned most of its workforce into work-from-home arrangements, which was coincidentally the same day that the NBA suspended...

Year in Review — 2019

2019 marks the end of the second decade in the 21st century. I'm going to resist the temptation to do the thing where you look back at the past 10 years and try...

Evolving Game Storytelling

I just finished the excellent semi-rebooted God of War on the PlayStation 4. The series started out on the PlayStation 2, and tells a classic Greek tragedy where the protagonist, Kratos, is tricked by the...

Year in Review — 2018

Do you remember, as an adult, when you stopped making a big deal out of your own birthday? For me, it was probably when it was no longer cool to get presents or throw parties...