Be ambitious about the process, not just the outcome. (To use my own hobby as an example, when I bake, I put on some good music, I take my time, I eat too much batter. That way, if the recipe implodes–like when I accidentally mixed up powdered sugar and flour–the whole thing isn’t a wash.)

Let more than one thing hold your ambition, or meaning. (Th... See more

One week everyone is embracing a brat summer, and the next they are approaching life in a ✨very mindful, very demure✨ way. Demure has done a Pilates class, ordered their green juice and gone to the Sunday morning market for their weekly groceries all before brat has even rolled out of bed. Brat is waking up at a random sharehouse in Fitzroy and dri... See more

My latest column at The New Yorker is about the revenge of homepages: Why we're turning toward individual websites as the platform era of the internet continues to disintegrate.

I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a ch... See more