Essays & Criticism
Should desire be curable? / Aeon Magazine
Parting Shot / The Paris Review
What is Given, What is Earned / Hazlitt
Silicon Valley High / The Morning News
We Need More Books Without Romance / Electric Literature
Late To the Party: Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior / Electric Literature
The Unbearable Lightness of Declaring a Liberal Arts Major / The Morning News
Tournament of Books 2018: THE IDIOT vs STEPHEN FLORIDA vs SAVAGE THEORIES / The Morning News
DATA, my monthly column at Catapult
Why I No Longer Make Predictions
Stay or Go? Or, the Case Against Playing it Safe
How I Learned to Trust in Therapy—Even Without Homework
Genetic Testing Can Tell You a Lot About Yourself—But What If You Don't Want to Know?
How an Abundance of Fitness Data Keeps Me from Obsessing Over a Single Number
Is It Possible to Truly Know Yourself? (Probably Not—And That's Okay.)
When Quitting is the Harder, Better Choice
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Asexuality
Can Desire or Love Be Predicted?
No Best Friend, But Better Off
The Beauty Myth—What Keeps Us From Seeing Ourselves Clearly?
Is Your Streak About to End? The False Belief That Can Drive Both Gambling and Anxiety
The Downside of Radical Honesty
How I Learned to Reconcile the Difference Between Experience and Memory
How We Create Personal Myths (And Why They Matter)
On Being Young, Scrappy, and (Sometimes) Satisfied
Should desire be curable? / Aeon Magazine
Parting Shot / The Paris Review
What is Given, What is Earned / Hazlitt
Silicon Valley High / The Morning News
We Need More Books Without Romance / Electric Literature
Late To the Party: Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior / Electric Literature
The Unbearable Lightness of Declaring a Liberal Arts Major / The Morning News
Tournament of Books 2018: THE IDIOT vs STEPHEN FLORIDA vs SAVAGE THEORIES / The Morning News
DATA, my monthly column at Catapult
Why I No Longer Make Predictions
Stay or Go? Or, the Case Against Playing it Safe
How I Learned to Trust in Therapy—Even Without Homework
Genetic Testing Can Tell You a Lot About Yourself—But What If You Don't Want to Know?
How an Abundance of Fitness Data Keeps Me from Obsessing Over a Single Number
Is It Possible to Truly Know Yourself? (Probably Not—And That's Okay.)
When Quitting is the Harder, Better Choice
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Asexuality
Can Desire or Love Be Predicted?
No Best Friend, But Better Off
The Beauty Myth—What Keeps Us From Seeing Ourselves Clearly?
Is Your Streak About to End? The False Belief That Can Drive Both Gambling and Anxiety
The Downside of Radical Honesty
How I Learned to Reconcile the Difference Between Experience and Memory
How We Create Personal Myths (And Why They Matter)
On Being Young, Scrappy, and (Sometimes) Satisfied