Filter Bubbles and Close Encounters: Reflections on City Life

I'm coming up on the one year anniversary of my move to New York City, and have been thinking a lot about how where we live impacts our perspective on life and how we interact with the people around us. I just finished a fascinating book called "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy" by Jenny Odell. The premise of Odell's book is that "in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity...doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance."

One Year Later

I was alone so longI didn't even know that I was lonelyOut in the cold so longI didn't even know that I was coldTurned my collar to the windThis is how it's always been All I've ever known is how to hold my ownAll I've ever known is how to hold my ownBut now IContinue reading "One Year Later"

My Other Self: Shame, Perfectionism, and ADHD

“I’m afraid of disappointing the people in my life.” A minute or two after I said these words, I realized they weren’t true. I was trying to explain to a friend the sense of free-floating anxiety and general frustration I’d been feeling the past month. With a few glorious exceptions including my sister's wedding, aContinue reading "My Other Self: Shame, Perfectionism, and ADHD"

Me Myself and The Gym: Exercise and ADHD

I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh...and watch TV And get aContinue reading "Me Myself and The Gym: Exercise and ADHD"

Superhero Origin Story

Well I’m on my way/I don’t know where I’m going/I’m on my way/Takin’ my time but I don’t know where.   -- Paul Simon It’s my first shift at work on Adderall and I feel like Peter Parker when he turned from being a nerdy outcast into a badass who could shoot spider webs from hisContinue reading "Superhero Origin Story"

Autobiography of a “Schmidiot”

"This one a long time have I watched. All his life he has looked away to the future...to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing!" --Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back" I step into the kitchen and my mom asks, “Do you think it’s working?” “I don’t think so.Continue reading "Autobiography of a “Schmidiot”"