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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe shares his thoughts and plans for his newest startup, Mind Robotics.

I sat in a church yesterday.I was reminded of a day that happened years ago. Or in fairness, this was decades ago and somehow, I must have blinked or turned around or missed something.Decades flew by.Age crept in and I’m not sure how this came to pass.I understand this intellectually, of course. But...

A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment but a privilege — that of having survived the loneliness of childhood, the brash insecurity of youth, the turmoil of middle age, ...

Derek Slivers' post about being online only for an hour or two, every few days, inspired a lot of people. But I'd like to share Rishi Dass's rebuttal, and add my own thoughts about the importance of finding your own solution to some of the distractions and stresses of the always-online world.

Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

I strain to use my eye as an investigatory tool—as a pencil, with my mind the sketch pad. I am not very skilled at it, which means that I can get better. That’s Patrick Bringley in All the Beauty in the World, a great little book about his experience as a guard at the Met but it’s also a book about...

Montserrat Roig’s classic novel captures Barcelona on the cusp of unimaginable change.

The Neubaten guitarist (later bassist) and collaborator with Phew, The Tiger Lillies and many more opens up about days wiled away in a seminal Berlin record shop, in an exclusive extract from his new book, Blast: Distorted Memories Alexander Hacke, riding the s-bahn home after a hard day's shopping ...

It’s about time I finally write a timeline of how frustrating HRT has been over the years, because I’m tired of re-explaining it and just want something to point folks to whenever it comes up.

I reminisced with a client recently about my first network kit, and I realised I hadn’t ever really talked about it here. Nor do I have a network page on my Retro Corner. Let’s begin to rectify this egregious oversight with a new series of long-winded posts about early childhood networking (mis)adve...

One of television’s most important business models—syndicating first-run content to TV stations looking to fill airtime—might be losing strea … er, steam.

It was late into the evening. I wanted to take a break from everything digital. Relaxing by doodling in my notebook. Trying a new grind. Seeing how the metal tip felt on the billowy silky Tomoe River. Nothing dramatic. Somewhere in the middle of all that I let my subconscious take control of my mind...