An interview with Brent R. Stockwell, Ph.D. — Brent Stockwell is a biochemistry professor at Columbia University and the chair of the biology department. His research focuses on the effects of cell metabolism and cell death (including a type of that process he discovered, called ferroptosis) on health and disease and how those phenomena might be used to…

An interview with Catherine Sanderson, Author & Psychology Professor — Catherine Sanderson, Author & Psychology Professor teaches at Amherst College and is the author of Why We Act: Turning Bystanders into Moral Rebels and The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity. A specialist in improving mental health on college campuses, she has also written for The…

An interview with the author of the recently released “Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! How to Take Back Our Time, Attention and Purpose in a World Designed to Bury Us in Bullshit” — Julio Vincent Gambuto is a filmmaker and author who began posting on Medium in 2016. In April of 2020, shortly after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, he wrote an essay called “Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting,” warning that businesses and government would try to deny the new realities of…

An epic Alaskan fly-fishing adventure — For Jon Gluck fly-fishing story completists (all three of you), I wrote a piece for Garden & Gun Magazine about an unforgettable trip to Alaska I took last summer. Come for the monster king salmon, arctic char, and rainbow trout, stay for the float planes, grizzly bears, and tear-inducing poetry.

An interview with Enrique Dans — Enrique Dans is a Professor of Innovation and Technology at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. He holds a B.A. in biological sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela, an MBA from IE, a Ph.D in Information Systems from UCLA, and has done post-doctoral work at Harvard Business School…

On the anniversary of the device’s launch, we’d like to hear it — The fate of Apple’s new Vision Pro “spatial computer,” which the company unveiled earlier this month, remains to be determined. But when Steve Jobs introduced another would-be game-changing product called the iPhone (you may have heard of it), on January 9, 2007, he called the device “revolutionary and magical,” and…

An interview with Cassie Kozyrkov — Cassie Kozyrkov is the Chief Decision Scientist at Google. So what does that mean she does all day? “Everyone asks me that!” she says. “The truth is, what I do day-to-day varies a lot, and you’ll be disappointed to know what the one constant is. The true misfortune of human…

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Entrepreneur Thomas Smith talks about starting The Generator, writing on Medium, being a Boost Beta curator, and more. — Thomas Smith is a longtime Medium contributor and the founding editor of the new Medium generative artificial intelligence publication, The Generator. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University with a degree in cognitive science, he’s also the CEO of Gado Images, an AI-driven company whose purpose is to “digitize, capture, and…