Crossing things off your list doesn’t make the list shorter— its just makes you think of other things you forgot when you made the list in the first place.
No news is no news
Looking for a city
Valuable insights are not rooted in our attachments to certain foods, people, places or images, but in our detachment from them, our ability to stand back and see them for what they represent.
How little I know
I suppose there is some value to a conscious incompetence as opposed to a false confidence. But at this point I’ll be happy if I can have a slow conversation with a very patient Nepali.
making some lists and checking them twice
Extracting yourself from one life into another is a series of loses, compromises, expectations and fantasies, a process rather than a moment.
And there is a plan B
I have two book ideas, and I expect to get to them eventually. This would be the time if the pandemic continues to rage and the vaccine fails and the world ends.
the daysman 