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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...
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I Can't Seem to Let The Graystones (and a Few Others) Go. And Why They Matter More Than Ever The internet used to be....
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This post is excerpted from a letter to my daughter on her 18th birthday. What does a dad say to his beloved daughter...
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i. the forging (2020) In the early days of January 2020, I was helping my daughter pack for her semester abroad. It's...
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I recently came across a fascinating series of studies about women who disguise negative gossip as concern. Instead o...
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i. the forging (2020) In the early days of January 2020, I was helping my daughter pack for her semester abroad. It's...
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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...
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We've been chasing the wrong thing for a long time. For centuries we've built our entire civilization around love — t...
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Lately I've been thinking about people—their motivations, how we read them, what they do and don't do, what they say ...
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A few bright spots from 2025. This summer I posted a short piece called There’s A Crack In Everything, That’s How the...