Choose Number Five
In 1965 Edith Sampson handed a graduating class one last multiple-choice exam: five ways to spend a life. Four of them are still available in 2026, and the feed has made them easier than ever.
Humanism & reading
2026
Effectuation, Twenty-Five Years Later
I read Sarasvathy's paper in 2001, while the dot-com crash was eating my first company. Four ventures later, an accounting of what held.
The Marble Was Never Sacred
A morning at the Panthéon, a chronology of erasures, and what a façade actually owes the people who read it.
2024
Adjacent Possibles
How a hexagonal floor tile became a way of choosing what comes next.