Snacking. I love it. But as I’ve come to learn the importance of healthy meals, I’ve also had to revise my conception of snacking as an unhealthy indulgence. Cutting out the bad snacks are hard because they taste so good. Part of the fun is not just eating a little bit but an enjoyable quantity. [...]
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At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will [...] “The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” Too often people look to improve societies instead of themselves. Defenders of a free market would do well to visit India. While technically actions in the country are subject to regulation, lax enforcement and a thriving black market allow one to observe a much closer approximation to a free market than anywhere else. If I had to pick one word to describe the pace and flow [...] For the first time in ten years I was able to revisit the mother city of my large, sprawling family. Fittingly, it is a large, sprawling city in the west of India. A prosperous city in a prosperous state, it is growing as rapidly as its emergent middle class. I found photographing this city (perhaps [...] I imagine this is what recovering alcoholics have to go through. Thanks to a diabolical friend who knows my weakness for complex systems, I have been addicted to this game for the past several weeks. Enough has been said on what this game entails so I will simply illustrate how this game has consumed my mind. [...] “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” It’s been over a year since I made the decision to leave my full-time high-salary cushy-benefits job in the middle of a recession and further my education in graduate school. At the time I had little to guide that decision other than instinct. Sure I had reasons but in cases like these, what more are [...] |
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