Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

Hyper-aggressive poker is most effective in games where players are happy to just call rather than reraise.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

I think there is this very nice, if at times dangerous, untethered optimism that exists in Silicon Valley.