Avital Balwit

“a nature altogether ardent, theoretic, and intellectually consequent..." - Middlemarch, Chapter 3

I met someone recently who was a passionate supporter of online ads. I met him in the audience of a lecture. He was speaking to a friend. Wi

This pattern made me think about idea generation more broadly, the pace at which different people produce good, novel ideas, and how we migh

I now use Claude every day, multiple times a day, both in my work and personal life. This is a relatively recent phenomenon: I rarely...

In conversation with Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America. While I have...

The London Review of Books just published my Letter to the Editor. It responds to Rebecca Solnit's "In the Shadow of Silicon Valley" from...