Behind the BookI Grew Up in California. I No Longer Live There.
He would talk about what happened to him. That was not the problem. The problem was that nobody wanted to listen.
Category: Behind the Book
Every book started somewhere specific: a phone call at the wrong hour, a job lost for the wrong reason, a canyon in 1986. These essays are those stories and the arguments that came out of them. Each one stands on its own and points at the book it produced.
Behind the Book
Behind the BookI Raised the Alarm on Pandemic Preparation. I Got Laughed Out of the Room.
I wrote this book because I'm angry. Angry that the information is available to anyone who looks and almost nobody in authority acts on it.
Behind the BookThe Only Open Seat Was Next to a Black Kid. His Name Was Sam.
Every signal my nervous system sent said do not sit there. I sat there because there was nowhere else to go. Within a week we were friends.
Behind the BookI Got Tired of Religious Answers That Did Not Match Reality
I did not set out to write theology. I started trying to make sense of existence because the explanations I grew up with created more problems than they solved.
Behind the BookYour Book Needs a Better Reason Than I Wrote Some Stuff and People Liked It
Quantity is not quality, and an archive is not a book. The difference is whether it solves a problem for a group of people.
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Behind the BookDave Could See That Jim Was Hurt. What Does That Even Mean?
She was happy. He was terrified. The hotel was romantic. Every one of those is the author reaching a conclusion the reader was supposed to reach.
Artificial IntelligenceDo What I Did Before I Had the Tools, Then Do What I Do With Them
People are outsourcing the one thing they should never outsource, and the instruction that would fix it is one almost nobody is now in a position to follow.
AdviceBefore 2014 I Spent a Thousand Hours a Year Watching Other People’s Work
They say they are too busy to exercise, too tired to cook, too overwhelmed to read, and too stressed to see friends. Then they watch Netflix for four hours.
Behind the BookNobody Else Asked. I Sat on the Folding Chair and He Told Me.
You want to know about the war, he said, making that familiar sucking sound through his teeth. It didn't start with Pearl Harbor for me.
Behind the BookI Have Owned a Lucky Shirt. I Have Knocked on Wood.
I am not immune to any of this. The question is never whether you think irrationally. It is whether anybody has died of it.
Behind the BookAnger Gets Six Times the Engagement. The Rest Follows From That.
We saw the warning signs. Facebook was making us depressed, Twitter was making us angry, and we kept using them anyway.
ADHDI Left the Church at Fourteen. I Was Baptized in December 2024.
I left convinced Christianity was not for people who could not sit still or focus. It took decades to hear a version of it that had room for me.