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Power Struggles Are Uncomfortable—and Necessary
First a short story on the subject of power: My daughter Anna never liked sleep. From the moment she arrived, she resisted it with all her might. We spent Year One walking up and down the streets of Hong Kong, where she was born, and we spent her toddler years
Walk With Me?
As you all know from my calendar system, I live by certain rules. In addition to those I’ve already shared, I believe in a firm book-to-podcast ratio: at least one hour of book listening* for every three hours of podcast listening. Some of the most thoughtful people
You Don’t Have to Work with Your Hands to Be Authentic
My career in documentary filmmaking was extremely short-lived. I entered the New York offices of Globalvision on a Monday, thrilled to bits that I would be fetching coffee for people who had produced for Frontline. Before the week was out, on top of all the yelling, one of them
Grace Note
This week I’m staying in a Marriott across the street from Mother Emanuel, the Charleston church where nine parishioners were killed by a white supremacist on June 17, 2015. It’s hard to look at the steps without recalling the surveillance video that was shown on repeat after the