I’m hiring a writing intern / freelance editor to help me during the writing process for my nonfiction book. I’m looking for someone who’s a clear thinker with an eye for clarity and precision. Ideally you’re good at writing clear sentences quickly and editing for clarity and style. Hopefully you read widely, including nonfiction books. This job is super fun because instead of me assigning you to go off and write something by yourself, this will be an interactive, collaborative process in which we work in real time on a Google Doc, talk through ideas, hashing out verbiage, and writing paragraphs.
Warm and cozy 2-bedroom apartment in the heart of the East Village We’re subletting our warm and cozy 2-bedroom apartment from Feb 1 – March 10. Unbeatable location in the heart of the East Village: Saint Marks Place between 2nd and 3rd Ave. Direct access to a sunny backyard with…

Lay on, winter. Do your worst. I’m ready for you. The winter! the brightness that blinds you, The white land locked tight as a drum, The cold fear that follows and finds you, The silence that bludgeons you dumb. The snows that are older than history, The woods where the…

Carl Sagan, November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996 After Voyager 2 passed Neptune, I got a chance to do something I had wanted to do for many years: turn the cameras around and photograph the distant Earth… I look at that picture and I see a pale blue dot….

Crash Course by Jay Dixit We breeze through our lives in a haze of complacency, assuming the world is safe. But at some point in our lives, most of us will be affected, directly or indirectly, by a life-or-death situation—whether it’s a mugging, a fire, a natural disaster, a vehicle…
The intelligent design people are right about one thing: our capacity for art, literature, music, comedy, and moral virtue is far too amazing to have evolved by blind chance through natural selection. Human creative intelligence is so remarkable that it must have been guided by some intelligent force. Psychologist Geoffrey…
Brilliant mind map of my talk at Ignite NYC by @imagethink. My topic was “Bouncing Back: How to build a psychological immune system.”
Wednesday, September 5—come watch me demonstrate my ignorance about the psychological underpinnings of political decisions! Adult Education presents: The Political Animal Wednesday, September 5, 2012 – 7 pm Housing Works Bookstore Cafe 126 Crosby Street, between Houston and Prince FREE As Election Day approaches Adult Education—a monthly lecture series devoted…