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Fan Boi
It's usually meant as an insult. After reading John Gruber's take on Apple's September event, I want to take the word back.
Pole Position, in Reverse
A pop lyric — 'in a big city, in pole position, when you reverse' — packs three contradictions into ten words. On the paradox of arrival, and why the most honest move from the front of the grid is sometimes backward.
Giant Steps
In 1959, John Coltrane walked into a studio and played a song no pianist on Earth could yet follow. The leap looked sudden. From inside the practice room, it had taken years — and the giant step turned out to be just one step in a much longer walk.
A Lesson in Follow Through
The racquet doesn't stop at contact. The energy continues past the ball, the stroke completes itself after the moment that matters most has already happened. That's the paradox. The work after the work is what defines the work.
