Economy
A few months ago, a 93-year-old billionaire donated $1 billion of her wealth to a medical school to make it free for its students…forever. It might seem counterintuitive that a billionaire making medical school free in perpetuity could inspire conversation about wealth limits, but in her piece for The Atlantic, columnist Christine Emba notes that […]
I just turned in the manuscript for my first book. And while no part of writing 100,000 words is easy and breezy, there was one persistently itchy thread that wove itself into the pages of my growing Google Doc, relentlessly stalking me through the paragraphs like the deranged ghost of Clippy. Call it “the Lean […]
On May 6, 1954, a British man named Roger Bannister did what was formerly considered unthinkable: He ran a mile in under four minutes. Runners had been chasing this elusive goal “seriously” since 1886, and for 68 years, the most talented athletes around the world slowly convinced themselves it wasn’t physically possible. Then Bannister proved […]
Last December, I took three of my best friends on a trip to Tulum, Mexico. It was the first time I had ever done something so grand, and a few days ago, I woke up thinking again of Tulum. I navigated to our choice hotel’s site to check booking availability, making a mental note of […]