Field Notes
Field notes explore the art of conversation through moments that linger—tensions worth examining, questions that resist easy answers. Each essay follows one thread from dialogue into something larger: how we listen, what we miss, why connection sometimes happens in the gaps between words.
Oration
A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill. ~ Lord Mancroft Conversations are difficult to end well. I’ve spent considerable time thinking about how to end them, and talking to people about how to end them. (I am aware it’s awfully meta to have More →
Conversation as a spectrum
Communication between two people falls on a spectrum, and that spectrum has more than one dimension. What would happen if I continuously (as often as is possible in a conversation, but also by reflecting on each conversation and planning for the next), made conscious adjustments? Information could be flowing predominantly from person A to B, evenly, or More →
Two people is magical
I’ve long believed that two is the perfect number of people in a podcast. I’ve long believed that two is the perfect number of people in a podcast. Yes, there are exceptional instances of podcasts with the other numbers of people in them. But there’s magic in two. I often find things scattered about which make More →