The best fish pie recipe in the world
I actually worry that the title undersells how good this fish pie recipe is! For context, fish pie is one of my favourite dishes. I have undertaken a lengthy quest trying different recipes to compare and contrast. Including trying the hybrids of other folks who have...
Bill Bernbach’s resignation letter
May 15, 1947 Dear __: Our agency is getting big. That’s something to be happy about. But it’s something to worry about, too, and I don’t mind telling you I’m damned worried. I’m worried that we’re going to fall into the trap of bigness, that we’re going to worship...
The Sea
My father worked in Ballymore and came down in the evenings on the train, in a wordless fury, bearing the frustrations of his day like so much luggage clutched in his clenched fists. What did my mother do with her time when he was gone and I was not there? I picture...
Weapons of Math Destruction
Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future. Doing that requires moral imagination, and that's something only humans can provide. We have to explicitly embed better values into our algorithms, creating Big Data models that follow our ethical...
Four Thousand Weeks
When you finally face the truth that you can’t dictate how fast things go, you stop trying to outrun your anxiety, and your anxiety is transformed. Digging in to a challenging work project that can’t be hurried becomes not a trigger for stressful emotions but a...