Time After Time
The analog antidote to my over-digitized life
The ability to have a shower curtain delivered by Amazon in under twenty-four hours is a recent development, relatively speaking. But the ability to have a printed copy of the latest news delivered to your doorstep, with articles written just hours ago, is not very recent at all, in fact. Home delivery of the print […]
My First Ironman: Where the Road to a World Record Begins
A story of struggle, endurance, and learning to believe in myself
I stood on the beach wall staring out into the ocean as the sun rose, forming the most beautiful purples and pinks. I thought to myself: “Today, I find out if the work I put in over the last seven months was enough.” “Today, I find out if the chase towards a world record begins […]
The Best Professors Teach Humility
How MIT professor David Autor exemplifies what economics can and should be about
I used to despise economics. ECO101, the introductory economics course I took at the University of Toronto, had convinced me that the field only offered dangerous half-truths. “Minimum wage laws increase unemployment,” I was taught. “Rent control laws are economically harmful; fairness can and should instead be achieved through other means.” I had started the […]
Productivity After Chaos
A semester from hell showed me which productivity practices work for me
This summer, I spent much of my free time digging through my high school diaries. I was a boring diary writer—instead of long entries detailing friendship drama or failed crushes, most of my diary entries were to-do lists and resolutions. “Write paper,” “get up at 5:30 AM,” “5 miles of running per week,” and so […]
Cambridge in the In-Between Moments
A brief guide to the city’s finest unplanned programming
Some of my favorite moments in Cambridge weren’t planned. They weren’t the kinds of things you’d mark on a calendar or schedule your week around. They just happened, quietly and unexpectedly, while I was trying to get home, find dinner, or avoid doing my laundry for the third night in a row. And I’ve noticed […]
