That is an installation of Startup Year One, a particular set of interviews with startup creators about the significant lessons they’ve learned from the immediate wake of the companies’ initial year of performance. Cami Téllez, 22, was operating on startups and venture funds because she was 17. While researching English and art history at Columbia […]
“The more a creature’s life is worth, the less of it is alive.” When the young Alan Turing (June 23, 1912–June 7, 1954) lost the love of his life, Christopher, to a bacterium contracted from cow’s milk, the grief-savaged future father of computing comforted his beloved’s grief-savaged mother by telling her that “the body provides […]
On the weight of the world and the weight of the sky. Brain Pickings was born on October 23, 2006, as a short email to seven friends. Seven years and several incomprehensible million readers into its existence, I began what has since become an annual tradition — a distillation of the most important things I […]
Inside the hallmark of a great scientist and a great human being — the ability to hold one’s opinions with firm but unfisted fingers. This essay is adapted from my book Figuring A middle-aged Scottish mathematician rises ahead of the sun to spend a couple of hours with Newton before the day punctuates her thinking […]
“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized.” This is the […]
That is an installation of Startup Year One, a particular collection of interviews with startup creators about the significant lessons they’ve observed in the immediate wake of the companies’ initial year of performance. Who Gives a Crap was set by Simon Griffiths, Danny Alexander, also Jehan Ratnatunga if they heard how many folks live using […]
“The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible. It is living void because all forms come out of it, and whosoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.” “Do you need a prod? / Do you need a little […]
A synesthetic invitation to dance across the full span of the spectrum within and without. One of the most bewildering things about life is how ever-shifting the inner weather systems are, yet how wholly each storm consumes us when it comes, how completely suffering not only darkens the inner firmament but dims the prospective imagination […]
That is an installation in a particular series, Startup Year One, Educating startup creators concerning the significant classes they learned at the immediate wake of the companies ’ initial year of performance. Eclipse Foods introduced its very first product in November 2019: a more healthy ice-cream made to flavor and operate exactly like conventionally-made milk […]
A subtle, stunning serenade to the lifelong hunger for self-love and self-forgiveness. A generation after Walt Whitman declared himself “the poet of the body and the poet of the soul,” animated by an electric awareness of how interleaved the two are — how the body is the locus of “the real I myself” — the […]