On Metaphors

4 Metaphors for Strategy

That aren't levers or bridges.

How to Collect Metaphors

We can reground ourselves in our lives by seeking out metaphors that actually resonate with us.

Is my blue your blue?

Who knew an Ikea rug would spark such an existential

Lessons from the Cisco Icon Set

If you designed an icon set from scratch to diagram something important about your world, what would it look like?

Kitchen drawers and laundry baskets: On metaphors and data

“Metaphorical thinking half discovers and half invents the world it describes."

Entangled in the Culmination Narrative

What to do with the seductive idea that it's all going to come together somehow, someday?

Interview: Taking Our Desires Seriously

A conversation with Shea in the Catskills, creator of Tarot as Questions

"Everything extraneous has burned away": An Interview about Love Alone--A Solo Play for World AIDS Day

A conversation with the director and actor from Love Alone, a new staging of Paul Monette's 1988 poetry collection grieving the loss of his partner, Roger, to AIDS.

Trans Ancestor Frank Woodhull and the Stories That Come From Necessity

How do I make sure to separate the stories that I tell from necessity—for advocacy reasons, for example—from those that feel most personal, most true, most alive?