“At 42, with young kids, I got a devastating diagnosis. I knew I was in for a harrowing journey. I didn’t know quite what kind.”
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‘I Awoke at ½ Past 7’
“Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Paul Kix, Matthieu Aikins, Matt Alt, Elisa Gabbert, and Sophie Elmhirst.
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We Need To Rewild The Internet
“The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.”
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Harmony
“You can practice a song a thousand times and still its first note sends you into the unknown.”
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In Defense of Despair
“The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be.”
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Fire. Dog. Life. Ice
“The thing that always haunted me about explorers was that when they left, they never knew if they were coming back.”
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A Notorious Pitchfork Reviewer Was My Biggest Musical Influence
“Pitchfork reviews have always been just as much about where and how music fits in the culture as they have been about the music itself.”
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Ditch
“He was always helping someone through something, even when he was barely holding on himself.”
