What We Talk About When We Talk About Attention
Attention is not merely focus. It is a form of love — the willingness to stay with something long enough to understand it.
The Examined Mind
Essays on the examined life
Featured Essay
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There is a particular kind of restlessness that visits in the early hours — not the restlessness of boredom, but of something unresolved. I have come to think of it as the mind's way of insisting on its own existence, a quiet refusal to be ignored.
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The Slow Erosion of the Long Sentence
Something is being lost in the way we write, and I suspect it is the same thing being lost in the way we think.
Notes on Solitude and the Examined Life
Solitude is not loneliness. It is the condition under which honest thought becomes possible.
Against Productivity
The cult of productivity has made us efficient at everything except the things that matter most.
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These essays are written in the margins of an ordinary life — between work and sleep, between certainty and doubt. I write to understand what I think, and to find out whether it holds up under scrutiny.