Category: Fragments

The dinner guest test: on rejoining facebook

Just over a year ago, I blogged about why I was leaving facebook.
I’ve just rejoined. I thought I’d explain why and how I’ll be using facebook differently than before.

My Mom keeps asking when I’m going to join again. She uses it all the time to keep in touch with my aunts, uncles and cousins. She’d [...]

Concentration not inspiration

In which Salman Rushdie pulls back the curtain on the writing process.

Third places

In which we find a place between home and work.

Narcissism of minor differences

In which Peter Baldwin and Freud explain how we make mountains out of molehills.

Vygotsky’s thoughts

In which Lev Vygotsky tries to convince us that thinking begins with speaking.