When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always […]
Category Archives: Essays & Interviews
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I begin each day of my life with a ritual: I wake up at 5:30 A.M., put on my workout clothes, my legwarmers, my sweatshirts, and my hat. I walk outside my Manhattan home, hail a taxi, and tell the driver to take me to the Pumping Iron gym at 91st Street and First Avenue, […]
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It’s hard to find a backpack that is beautifully designed and functional at the same time. As someone who gets sent a lot of products to test, I’ve found that you have to accept a bulky and typical, “tech backpack” if you want a bag that has a separate laptop compartment for your Macbook or […]
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Running between classes, clinics, and hospitals, things can get pretty busy in medical school. So I like to keep the rest of my life simple – and the team over at ISM understands that. The classic backpack strikes a perfect balance between form and function that is hard to find elsewhere in the current market […]
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On being a digital nomad: I traveled the world for a year and a half as a digital nomad, joking with my friends that my large backpack was my apartment and my smaller one was my office. In that time, I’ve come to learn the absolute necessities of my day-to-day office (a.k.a. backpack) as a […]
