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The Trouble with Certainty
Every person I have known who was absolutely certain they were right about the important things has turned out, in time, to have been wrong...
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On Being Ordinary
I want to make a case for ordinariness, by which I mean the kind of life that does not leave a large historical footprint, that is not disti...
Cold Brew
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The Case for Doubt
I want to argue for doubt as an intellectual virtue — not the paralysing kind, not the nihilistic kind, not the fashionable uncertainty that...
Affogato
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What I Would Have Said
To the argument I walked away from, at twenty-six, in a room full of people who were wrong about something I was too tired to explain: you w...
Macchiato
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In Defence of Small Pleasures
There is a particular intellectual contempt reserved, in certain circles, for people who admit to taking genuine pleasure in small things. T...
Latte
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Against Productivity
I want to make a case, deliberate and serious, against the current religion of productivity. I want to make it carefully because the counter...
Latte
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Everything I Know About Leaving
I have left many places. I have left them well and poorly and in a hurry and with great deliberation, and I have been studying the practice...