Behind the scenes

Last week a friend of mine told me about “The Science of Awe”, and how it helped him understand his obsession with surfing big wave...

There was a time in my life when I traveled so much that, when I bumped into friends at random places around the globe, it barely g...

When the world is open and bank accounts are swollen and passports have fresh pages, boredom is cured beyond our walls. We find stimulati...

Beautiful strangers? I’ve known more than I deserve.I once met a guy in a cab from Mali to Guinea and, when we arrived at our destination...

I’m reading Sapiens right now. It’s a good book, but dense. I probably won’t finish it. Anyway, the author does a great job at framing hu...

In Common In the first note I wrote for Db I recommended Sebastian Junger’s Tribe, and now I can’t stop thinking about it. Especially t...

Last week I went to the grocery store like I was gonna rob the joint. I had a mask over my face, gloves on my hands and a steely focus on...

Did you ever play with wind-up toy cars as a kid? The ones where you’d twist the winder and then let it go? If you wound them up a little...

You’re probably reading this at home. It’s where I’m writing you from. (Hi.) Millions of other people around the world are here, too.Home...