HeyJaredFisher’s Island
Essays on attention, ambition, technology, and the work of staying human.
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A 10% Better Host (opens the original)
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Modern hospitality, especially when it comes to having people over to your home, is often built around a version of later.After the kitchen is finished. After I learn to cook properly. After the children are older and life becomes less hectic. After the house looks more like the house I think I ought to have.These are all respectable reasons. But waiting is one of the ways years disappear.I used to have people over more often. Since becoming a father - almost nine years ago now - I have become v
The Standing Order (opens the original)
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Other People’s Good Ideas (opens the original)
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Last week I spent three days annoyed that a friend had failed to send someone my biography.This is not an especially flattering way to begin.The bio in question is one page. Small, square photograph at the top. A few paragraphs. Not a résumé exactly, more like a contextual cheat sheet explaining why two people who don’t know each other might reasonably connect.My friend had invited me to lunch with a colleague of his to explore ways we might work together. I sent him the bio beforehand to pass a
50 Things I Know (opens the original)
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I know that if you miss the internet for a day, you have missed everything. Miss it for a month, you have missed nothing.Be careful about where you place your attention. What you keep returning to shapes your choices, and your choices eventually become you.Attention can easily be crowded out. If you don’t defend some quiet, the infinite scroll will make your inner life feel like rented space.I know that comparison becomes dangerous when you measure your life by someone else’s ruler. You’ll alway
When Every Version of My Life is Plausible (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, a major filmmaker I’ve always wanted to work with called me out of the blue with an idea.He is brilliant, kinetic, and difficult to pin down. The call had the voltage of something that might become real. So I did what I always do.I went away and built something.Over the next two weeks, I turned that incoming conversation into a full presentation. I mapped the assets and relationships, argued for an even larger opportunity, and constructed a multiyear plan.Then I recorded a short
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