I’m looking for ways to win Sydney Sweeney over. I thought about sending her flowers, but that’s far too conventional. I looked into the price of a Times Square billboard, but these days any idiot advertises there. I wrote her a poem, but tossed it into the fireplace because it was unbearably corny; only I

If you look back over the last 50 years, you could chart the evolution of how many seconds a person can stay focused on one activity before switching to something else. I’ve known since childhood that human beings are born for slow contemplation. As a kid, I could spend hours — or perhaps millions of