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I opened my news app this morning. By the fourth headline my mind stopped reading and started mapping. The map it mad...
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Download PDF There is a man named Plinko who used to work as a clown on kids' night at a Ground Round restaurant in J...
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Download PDF In 1953, Samuel Beckett wrote a play where two men wait for someone who does not come. They insist he wi...
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I'm in a Starbucks on a Tuesday afternoon, half-working, half-staring at a wall, when the opening synth line comes th...
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Tolstoy’s Calendar of Wisdom · March 25 “As you acquire objects, and you use them, you should keep in mind that they ...
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This essay was originally published on March 24th as "Three Generations of Men, One Unsettled Question." It's already...
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Growing up, there was a short pile of books sitting out on the cocktail table in the den of my childhood home, the ki...
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Sprezzatura. Say it out loud. Spreh-za-TOO-rah. Let it sit in your mouth for a second. Sounds like something you'd wa...
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On the theft of original thought and my fury at those who caused it. There are many times throughout the day when I p...
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself. —Michel de Montaigne In 1571, a French nobleman bought a c...
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For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent l...
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Years ago, an AA sponsor said something to me that bypassed every defense I had against the idea of God. I was in ear...
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A note before you read. This is an experiment. I've spent years accumulating ideas, knowledge, and ways of thinking a...
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A note before you read—this is an experiment. I've spent years accumulating ideas, learning, and ways of thinking abo...
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I was channel surfing late one night when I came across a local news story about a guy who builds jet turbines for th...
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I was channel surfing late one night when I came across a local news story about a guy who builds jet turbines for th...
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Let me start with the thing nobody on the left wants to admit, because admitting it means owning part of the catastro...
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Let me start with the thing nobody on the left wants to admit, because admitting it means owning part of the catastro...
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Somewhere in the past decade or two—pick your own cultural ruin-marker— it stopped being a side quirk that people don...
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. –W. Edwards Deming We're taught early that pr...