In Publisher’s Marketplace today.

When one of your articles gets republished in a new magazine all about recursion, it’s basically required to link back to it again, right?

By embedding every other ad in a Tide ad, Tide embeds itself in every other ad.

Occasionally I'll run into a cultural artifact that so perfectly combines my four themes that it's hard to know where to start with it. Arcade Fire's latest album, Everything Now, is one of those cultural artifacts.

Some thoughts on the midway milestone and what I’ve learned to date in the writing process.

The recent fallout from Trump's decision to fire FBI Director Comey illustrates a fundamental shift to the executive decision-making paradigm away from the established cultural standards of mature, stable, democratic republics. 

Again and again, nonchalance is something we want to build with images but tear down with words. On some level we all understand it is an illusion, so why do we keep falling for it? 

Kusama's work is innovative and visually stunning, creating illusions of vast magical landscapes inside spaces often the size of a bathroom or closet.

My article "Alternative Facts and Anna Karenina" is in The Poleax today.

For anyone who has been having trouble keeping things straight recently.

Increasingly, we see companies and individuals selling us the absence of things, selling us on negative space, on minimalism. How do you sell things when consumerism itself is passé? You sell anti-consumerism.

If you crop out Donald, it's a moving, beautiful image. Two powerful women, an African American and an immigrant, embracing one another warmly, clad in the color family of the other's party.

We are all the end-users of our own lives, but what we think we want often turns out to be different from what we actually want. I decided to test a few things before going into the next round of production. 

The IPO of Chinese "Aspirational Beauty App" Meitu is an irresistible conflux of innovation, glamour, and recursion--straight from the pages of Infinite Jest.

When I read this article on "Goat Yoga," in the New York Times last week, my immediate thought was, this is it, this is why Donald Trump won the election. 

Peter Thiel notwithstanding, Clinton is the innovator's candidate. And not just because she's Silicon Valley's choice. 

Forget blinking buttons and spacesuits--the height of technical innovation is rather its own obfuscation.

Looking at Narcissus's conundrum as a design problem, he faces two main issues: lack of control, and impermanence. The selfie seems to solve both of them. 

Recursion transcends academic disciplines, unites art and nature, and may be the fundamental linguistic and even cognitive function that differentiates human from animal existence.