Author: Andrew
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A list of blog posts I read 1st half of 2025
Here’s a list I was keeping in a text file of the blogs/articles/essays I was reading through the first half of this year. Before I started keeping a lot of them here. I was quite good about logging each piece I read and have since dropped off. Title: Blogs and essays I’ve read Tags: blogs,…
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Baby Shoggoth is Listening
This subject is interesting to me. I find I don’t get particularly drawn up in the subject of legacy, but the framing of impacting the AIs by showing it who you are and what you find important is interesting. I don’t think I’d say that I have to write so that the AIs know me.…
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Stubborn Attachments
A vision for a society of free, prosperous, and responsible invidviduals By Tyler Cowen Opening of the book: “Growth is good. Through history, economic growth in particular has alleviated human misery, improved human happiness and opportunity, and lengthened human lives. Wealthier societies are more stable, offer better living standards, produce better medicines and ensure greater…
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What a weekend for Sadie
Two big ones to note for Sadie this weekend: Super proud of Sade. Very excited for her and what’s to come with the personal training. Tonight, we’re celebrating with pizza, salad, and wine. Just wanted to remember 🙂
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Dinner, Friends, Stories we Tell
Tonight, I had dinner with the band. That’d be Griffin, Paul, Doug, and Taylor. All my “mates” as the kids would call them, but way of Bluey. It was very real conversation. The kind that is about something. The kind that tries, with some kind of strain, to say something about the way things are…
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Into My Arms
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1997 We got up in two phases this morning. Shepherd first, going to school. Greta and Goldie next, going nowhere thankfully. As it all started up, changing a diaper (Goldie) and getting a banana (Greta), I think I just got lucky and caught a sense of its beauty. And…
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Old Hymns
A friend I grew up with is going through a big health shock. Emergency surgery. Waiting on pathology reports. The stuff that gets shared in group texts to ask for hope and prayer. It’s really got me. He’s my age and has kids my kids ages. He is like me. I could be him. So…
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Anomie
Back in the days of yore, if you did not manage to get a job at Google in 2005 you could still buy its stock. You had at least the option of gaining from its appreciation assuming you thought it inevitable. Over the last decade and a half there have been multiple generations who succeeded…