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The panic over one punctuation mark says less about AI than it does about writers optimizing for the wrong audience. The em dash has become a Rorschach test. Use one, and somewhere a reader is deciding you let a chatbot write your sentence. The advice that follows is predictable: strip the dashes, prove your humanity, … Read more
A year of books on incentives, institutions, narrative, and decision-making—what each one argues, why it matters, and where it’s useful The Upside of Down | Megan McArdle McArdle examines why failure is essential to success. She pulls from economics, psychology, and personal narrative to argue that societies and individuals that learn from failure outperform those … Read more
Career arbitrage and the power of unfair ease If you listen to enough commencement speeches or scroll through enough Instagram quotes, the advice for young adults seems unanimous: “Follow your passion,” and “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” It makes sense. It’s also incomplete advice—and fragile when real … Read more
Six years in public service, media, and business taught me one thing: clarity beats volume. Here’s what I learned and what comes next. Beyond the Goal: Eliyahu Goldratt Speaks on the Theory of Constraints isn’t among my favorite listens of 2025, but it highlights a useful truth: every system has a primary constraint; until you … Read more
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