About Bokeh

Bokeh blurs the lines between the big picture and the details—zooming in on rituals, habits, solo pleasures, cultural whiplash, and the way place shapes identity, while staying grounded in culture, business, food, and how we live now.

About me: I write from Paris, where I live now, but I’m originally from New York. I worked for years as a journalist and food editor (Bon Appétit) and co-founded two cult-favorite independent print magazines: Drift, devoted to coffee culture, and Ambrosia, which explored restaurants and cities around the world. These days, I work in startups, focusing on growth and storytelling, and write here in a format that’s part essay, part field notes, part running commentary on modern life, business, food, travel, and culture.

The name Bokeh comes from photography: it’s the aesthetic quality of the blur in the background that makes the subject pop. This newsletter sits somewhere in that blur, pulling into focus what we often tune out—context, timing, taste, and anything else that resists tidy framing.

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