Spring Holiday
Warm-ish weather travels
Every few months I take a seasonal holiday, so this is my spring break — I’ll be back in a couple weeks. While I get out of the city to enjoy the not-quite-warm-yet ocean with my family, please check out the archive! Here are a few oldies that I recommend:
On Olivia Reingold’s “A Cold Email Got Me My Job”
She loves me… she loves me not. She loves me… she loves me not. She loves me…
Olivia Reingold advises that, “A good cold email is not unlike a good love letter. It should make you feel vulnerable.” ...
On Stephen Fry's “In Touch With The Inner Adult”
Comic books are a key influence on my visual essays. They are a perfect marriage of drawing and writing. You could never enjoy comics as audiobooks, and I hope you feel that way when you read Fashionably Late Takes. ...
On Maria Popova's "The Marginalian"
One of my favorite words is the Japanese term tsundoku. It refers to growing piles of unread books. I love it for giving me the vocabulary to describe a perpetual state in my home, one that brings me joy mixed with a dash of melancholy — the immense pleasure of possessing all those volumes of knowledge and stories, tinged with the sadness of recognizing that there can never be time enough to read them all. ...
