December 2010
5 posts
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The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method | The... →
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On Air and On Error: This American Life's Ira... →
Have you gotten faster at recognizing what’s not going to work?
Well, I register the danger that it might not work. But honestly sometimes you have to just do it. There are definitely interviews that we all go into knowing, “Ehhhhh, here’s all the things that can go wrong and here’s the one or two things that it can go right.” And you just gotta do it.
I had this...
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An Inspirational Letter to My Students : The New... →
You must write as if your reader needed you desperately, because he does. If, as Kafka said, a book is an ax for the frozen sea within us, then write with that frozen sea in mind and in view. See your reader, who has fallen through the ice of his own manufacture. You can just make him out, as he flails in slow motion, palms pressed upward under the ice. Here’s your ax. Now, chop away and...
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Radical Solutions for Palestine - Interview by... →
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State Dept. Warning Prospective Recruits to Steer... →