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“The 22 bus is the only route that runs 24 hours in Silicon Valley and it has become something of an unofficial shelter for the homeless. They call it Hotel 22.”
The problems with capitalism, as explained by a Minecraft hedge fund manager.
A medical actor who fakes illnesses so trainee doctors learn empathy. “Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries. Sadness becomes a seizure. Empathy demands another kind of porousness in response.”
What does an orgasm look like?
Harvard’s tests for implicit associations about race, gender and sexual orientation.
“With my form of multiple sclerosis, I quickly started to realise that while the disease would likely never kill me by itself, the sheer weight of time could still do some serious damage. You know. All the wonderful things I should have done before. All the terrible things that might now happen. Playing Spelunky’s genuinely refreshing in this regard: it’s a reminder that the only moment that really matters is the moment that’s currently unfolding. Strategy dries up and blows away in the present, and in its place you’re left with tactics, with what to do for the next thirty seconds. Forget the City of Gold – how do I handle this frog that’s blocking the exit? Forget my plans for the afternoon, what’s with this stutter?”
On being a black male, six feet four inches tall, in America in 2014.
“Capturing Knight was the human equivalent of netting a giant squid. He was an uncontacted tribe of one.”
Poem of the week: Epistle: Leaving, Kerrin McCadden
Game of the week: Crossy Road
Tumblr of the week: To My Unborn Son
