Archive for July, 2009
Scrubs
I saw them on the T in Boston. I see them crossing the street in Seattle. And it makes me wonder: why do people wear medical scrubs out on the street?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought the whole point of scrubs was to have a cleaner set of clothes when interacting with patients, to keep the hospital [...]
Rapt
I recently finished reading Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher. It talks about why paying attention is good and shapes your life experience, and offers a few reminders as to how to do so. It was OK reading, though I expected it to be either more of an analysis of the state of rapt attention itself, or [...]
STP 2009
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This weekend, Knox and I rode the Seattle to Portland Classic. Doing it at least once is de rigeur if you call yourself a biker in the Northwest. In fact, it was the one big ride I wanted to do this year; all the other ones we just added in our cabin-fever enthusiasm this past winter.
I enjoyed the [...]
In Defense of Food
Who would have thought food needs defending? And yet Michael Pollan manages to do just that in his acclaimed book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. The book’s recommendations appear in the first sentence (and on the cover): “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Pollan book makes the case for these dicta in three [...]
Beyond greenwashing
Switching to energy-efficient lightbulbs and fastidiously recycling is all well and good at home, but to really effect the urgent change that we need to avert the imminent climate catastraphe, we need to systemically change the way we do things—which means the way business does things. This is the message of Getting Green Done: Hard [...]
