New Yorker staff writer Emily Nussbaum posed this question on Twitter: What is your best LIFE HACK?? Most were amazingly wise and/or useful. Here are our favorites:
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Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors
A poem found at random got us thinking about all the teachers we’ve had who never called themselves that, or even thought of themselves that way…
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Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies via David Bowie
Judging from his worn and taped together set of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, David Bowie really made use of the cards designed to SHIFT your head when you’ve hit a creative block or impasse. Now long out of print, we found a digital version…
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Gifts from Opening Books at Random: Bibliosophia? Bibliotherapy? Bibliomancy?
Daily we find ourselves opening a random book to find a kernel of something just right: an image, a bit of writing, a poem, an unexpected gift that resonates with the moment. We wondered what to call this mysterious occurance.
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the enduring wisdom of ‘the phantom tollboth’
We are amazed at how often we return to The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster’s classic kid’s book that is celebrating 50 years of stunning popularity. It’s the story of Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. In his rarely-used kid’s-size car, he embarks on a surprising…
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