Welcome to The Extra Mile, where I hash out some ill-formed ideas about technology, bodies, and knowledge. This newsletter is bonus content for Second Breakfast paid subscribers. Thank you for your support (and apologies, I guess, that your reward is yet another email in your inbox).
Things feel like they've shifted maybe? I mean, is this what it feels like to have hope again? None of us knows if we can do this. And we are about to do it anyway. And the combination of those truths helped me, in those vertiginous few minutes,
One of the downsides, I guess, of waiting until Sunday afternoon to write my "Extra Mile" newsletter is that it feels like everyone else has already published their "take" on the week's news. So anything I have to say feels like a repetition of
Well. The last week has been a year, hasn't it. I will have much more to say on Silicon Valley's Veep candidate and his investment portfolio, along with the latest updates on AI in education in Monday's "The Extra Mile." Let'
A terrible person once said something pithy about “known knowns,” “known unknowns,” and “unknown unknowns” — and my, wouldn’t it be a better world if he had been talking about one’s first triathlon and not, say, the fabrications the Bush Administration used to justify the Iraq War. Because the