I said when I first started this newsletter that I’d write some random thoughts posts and I have yet to do that. Well, wait no more!
It follows the format of my Random Things About Random Stuff feature that I include in nearly every newsletter...
On a given night, you’ll find me teaching a beginning meditation class at the Zen temple where I live, fighting Kendo, serving tea, doing ceramics or with my face illuminated by a computer screen...
Original research and fresh insight into the political news that matters most. You are not a spectator and democracy is not a game. But so much of what is written about politics treats you that way. That’s why I created Popular Information. It is...
The Diff is a daily newsletter covering inflection points in finance and technology. I aim to answer a simple question: in a few centuries, when historians reach a consensus on what was happening today, what will they believe?
Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn’t repeat itself; it rhymes.
To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here.
That’s where this newsletter comes in.
I’m a professor of American history.
I’m an award-winning journalist. I’ve covered the stuff Toronto City Council does for eight years. I was the first person to start fact-checking Mayor Rob Ford’s claim to have saved Toronto $1 billion. I track council votes so you know what…
I’m a French entrepreneur based in San Francisco. I have worked for three years with plant medicine and recently spent three months deep in the Amazon forest with the Yawanawa and Ashaninka tribes.
The knowledge and plant medicine they shared...