Reinventing the human heart

“It’s a joke,” he said, “but this is kind of what I envision. That you’ll be able to walk into Costco, pull this off a shelf, and have your surgeon stick it in your chest. These things are so simple, we’ll be putting them in the chests of 100,000 people a year.” — No Pulse: […]

The weight of writing

“And it means letting go of that weight, which now lives solely in our heads. Instead of weight, let’s think of depth: revisions that are either deep or shallow, measured in time and effort rather than pounds. And furthermore, let’s think about the reading experience as one of depth as well: superficial (only the latest […]