New Essay in 'Beyond the Bookshelf'

On becoming a "cultured person", temporal bandwidth, and being interested in everything.

Hi folks,

I’m bringing you one of my essays that was published today on

Matthew Long

’s wonderful substack, Beyond the Bookshelf. I’ll let the piece speak for itself, except to say that it acts as a kind of origin story for me as a writer and for the project formerly known as Art of Conversation (now Volumes). I hope you enjoy it, and please do check out Beyond the Bookshelf if you haven’t already seen the great writing over there.

Here’s the essay:

Becoming Cultured

Thanks for reading. See you all back here next week in the digital pages of Volumes.

Matthew