3 December 2020 James Fallows A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.
3 December 2020 James Fallows Over the eons I’ve been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to ‘simplify’ and ‘bring order to’ my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.
3 December 2020 James Fallows The hoary joke in the literary world, based on ‘Dreams From My Father,’ was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
3 December 2020 James Fallows Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China’s continued development. That’s according to me, but it is not some wacko view.
3 December 2020 James Fallows There’s no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
