That’s me. Not the best picture. But that’s the thing about humans: we are imperfect. This post will be equally imperfect. Because a human wrote it. As the world meets its AI future with the public introduction of ChatGPT, we are seeing the frightening power of robots and algorithms, which…

Hello, friends and readers. Thanks to the internet, I am working from six hours in the future this week, celebrating a very belated Christmas here in Montenegro with our European family. If you follow my work at all, you know I enjoy writing whenever we are here. It’s such a…

You don’t need to watch the Tyre Nichols videos to be horrified. If you have seen them, you know the horror. If you are curious and can stomach it, a simple Google search will lead you to them. A 29-year-old man is beaten to death on camera after he’s pulled…

There are certain moments when you just hit your limits. For lunch today, I collided with a limit. Smack! A salad — no larger than a cereal bowl, no heavier than a book — filled with nothing more than lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, chickpeas, and salmon the size of a minnow…

This was the first year since 2019 that I put up a Christmas tree. In 2020, of course, the world ravaged by Covid, I skipped what a former boyfriend once called my “pagan ritual.” I found myself in a new apartment after my New York City landlord raised the rent…

Friends, Colleagues, Readers, Just your year-end reminder here that the work, the deadlines, the projects, the next steps, the circling back, the PowerPoints, the Zooms, the quarterly goals — they’ll all be there when you get back to the office after the holidays. So will all the pinging and the…

ON SATURDAY MORNING here in New York City, thousands of people stood in line in Little Italy waiting for an “Emily in Paris pop-up.” Emily in Paris is a series on Netflix. An Emily in Paris pop-up? I have no idea what that is. Women, men, couples, teens, even kids…

The holiday season has begun. And that means our dear American brands — from Starbucks to Target, from Apple to J. Crew to Best Buy — have all flipped the digital disc-jockey switch from pleasant capitalist retail soft rock to wall-to-wall Jingle Bells. In every store in America, it’s time…