My friend Jack Goldsmith and his colleague Bob Bauer are doing us all a favor, explaining and historicizing presidential power with the Executive Functions newsletter.
One goal for this spring is to write and pitch a longform book review. Curious if folks here have methods or frameworks that set up that particular writing process well.
I really enjoyed talking with architect and podcaster Erin Peavey about design for interdependence, family life, disability and more: open.spotify.com/episode/7…
Intrigued by Architectural Uprising.
Leah Libresco Sargeant is that rare journalist looking hard at the post-Dobbs landscape.
Another week of frigid walking commutes, but I’m cheered by spotting paper flyers advertising IRL mixers for millennial singles — “apps are out, meetups are in.” Go go go, y’all — undigital habit shifters unite.
“I had no interest in subverting things — monogamy, moral norms, courtship, the nuclear family, faith, a classical education — that I’d never had or known in the first place… sarahendren.com/2025/01/2… (h/t @ayjay)
A couple of my projects will be in this exhibition at the V&A this summer. I wish I could see it!
My grad student from Istanbul brought me some real-deal Turkish Delight.
Our daughter now has her driver’s license. New era of “excuses to go to the grocery store” commencing.
It has been forever since I listened to Erykah Badu’s Badhuizm, and my goodness. A stunning and enduring record.
On choosing.
Off to purchase blue books for my students’ quiz like it’s 1993
I have some work in a show opening next week at MoMA called Pirouette: Turning Points in Design.
It’s the first day of classes and I will be talking with students about @ayjay’s thoughts on being a self-deceived rational utility maximizer.
On Magnum Opus Syndrome and coaching PhD students: sarahendren.com/2025/01/0…
I wrote about people as object lessons.
Thank goodness for Cameron Tonkinwise: “You just know the university managerial class making decisions to sign on with flailing organizations like Open AI will weasel a response like ‘the best way to learn what something is, is by using it.’ But I’ve been driving for 30 years and…
Our daughter drew images for our church bulletin, marking all seasons of the liturgical year. We made them into prints for grandparents’ Christmas gifts (Artifact Uprising).
Malcolm and I are nearing the end of Endurance, about the Shackleton expedition to Antarctica. The ship sank, sled dogs have all been shot or eaten, gangrene surgeries done, a marooned party awaits rescue while Shackleton and co brave the Drake Passage in an ill-equipped small boat. Yikes, y’all!