If you’re the preordering kind.
Happy to see a starred review for “Magic and Loss” in Kirkus.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/virginia-heffernan/magic-and-loss/
“"If I win, all of the bad things happening in America will be rapidly reversed!”
About secret Facebook boards, and the days when I was Team Monica.
Hugely grateful to be admired by @goop!
St. Paul’s now offers boarding school for preschoolers.
By https://medium.com/message/anglican-mother-a16420b57878
Nothing unperplexes easy.
By https://medium.com/message/how-to-untangle-a-necklace-dcc418e026af
‘Mindfulness’ has exotic origins. In the late 19th century, the heyday of both the British Empire and Victorian Orientalism, a British magistrate in Galle, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), with the formidable name of Thomas William Rhys Davids, found himself charged with adjudicating Buddhist ecclesiastical disputes. He set out to learn Pali, a Middle Indo-Aryan tongue and the liturgical language of Theravada, an early branch of Buddhism. In 1881, he thus pulled out “mindfulness” — a synonym for “attention” from 1530 — as an approximate translation of the Buddhist concept of sati.
By “The Muddied Meaning of Mindfulness”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/the-muddied-meaning-of-mindfulness.html
If nausea is the body’s dysphoric response to the uncanny, presence is the euphoric one. By http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/virtual-reality-fails-its-way-to-success.html
Becoming fully digital happens population by population. And becoming conscious of that transition, accepting the consequences of what Nicholas Negroponte twenty years ago called “being digital,” often requires a simple snafu, like the breakdown between Scrabble and Facebook Connect, which outed millions as gamers and as digital dependents, reliant for their habits and even well-being on the money-culture-code nexus known as the Internet. By https://medium.com/backchannel/facebook-glitch-outs-scrabblers-like-me-as-junkies-a7635495ed1e
When it comes to smart use of customer data, L. L. Bean makes other retailers look like rubes.
u r kidding yourself if you think it’s not as important as gaming—or speech
Earlier this year, Ev Williams’ Medium roped in veteran Wired writer Steven Levy to start a technology hub. Levy, even though at times (frustratingly) glosses over the tough
Reform? Open-source? Campaign affairs? Yes! Uber? No!
My piece on the scandalously happy reformer, Zephyr Teachout. Even with a hangover, she’s goddamned radiant.
