I confess I’m a sucker for a particular kind of online article that proliferates this holiday season: the one that lists “the top tech gifts for the year.” As my friend Andy Crouch has explained on this Good Faith podcast episode, technology whispers the ancient promise of magic: new powers, effortlessly acquired. Suppose that I […]

There’s much more to food than palate and preference. How does a go-to meal at your favorite hometown restaurant reveal the true you behind the web bio?  My family immigrated to the US from Taiwan when I was three years old. I quickly became proficient in English through the alchemical mix of a plastic young […]

Like so many, I woke up the day after the election to what felt like a changed world. To lay my cards out, I was much more voting against the dangers of another Trump administration than out of enthusiastic embrace of a Harris agenda. Given my evaluation (which I recognize may or may not be shared by everyone […]

I like to be creative. I am most energized when I’m coming up with a fresh insight, a never before articulated metaphor, or building an original product. For many months, while I was developing The After Party course, writing the book with Nancy French, and catalyzing the production of Songs for The After Party, my […]