Author: Andrew
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American Pastoral
Last book I read this year and it was very enjoyable. It’s America Dream, both as it is and the story it tells about itself. I think it’s a tale, a commentary maybe, on what we all collectively think America was post-WWII through the 60s contrasted with the internal and external experience of people we’d…
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January 2026, Ambitions
Here’s what I plan to do in January 2026. Starting tomorrow. No measurements on how much. Just do them as a matter of existing. The purpose is the live as focused as I can in contrast to the ever-losing-battle to the attention economy. As realistically hermetic as possible.
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Slop & FIWB
Is slop the word of the year? Maybe so, or maybe it was in 2024 and I’m just behind. AI slop seems to have mode us realize the other places where we’re already doing slop. Where good aesthetics are absent or have all flattened into a unified, white-fluorescent, expression. And this tweet sums up what…
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2025, Christmas Day
Ahh, Christmas. This is our first “tradition-building” Christmas and it’s been a blast. 6:55 AM, Greta wakes us up to let us know that Goldie is awake and she’d like some milk. We attempted a 15 minute snooze, but gave that up a few minutes in. It was wishful, this is Christmas. You have to…
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A meme to make sense of things
Watched this and immediately understood it. That COVID “ended” is sort of a misdirection. Or, it’s not the full expression of what we mean by COVID. Not for me anyways. “everything changed” – yeah, it did
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How the Phone Ban Saved High School
It’s probably common knowledge at this point that a lot of the youth’s troubles come from The Phones. As much as Marc Andreessen and others say it can’t be, look at the charts, it’s at least got something to do with it. I read this short article – with quite a strange and abrupt ending…
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K-12 Education Spending
There is very little more essential to a free society than universal literacy and adequate public education. It is a civil rights issue. It is the foundation for absolutely everything else. To fail here is to lastingly abandon a significant fraction of our children to a lifelong struggle. Quote is from The Argument’s post in…
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I’ve been chainsmoking again
This is another one in which the timeline and algorithm are uniformly serving up takes on this Trump post over and over. The result is me looking at Twitter all morning long just refreshing and seeing how it develops. It’s awful, and I know it’s awful. My refresh is some attempt to make this progress…
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Age based reading list
Super cool reading list broken up by age. Get off Twitter and could read. https://educatedandfree.substack.com/p/a-library-to-build-great-americans?r=b8lae
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On reading
Found this interesting. I don’t check as many books out from the library because they feel impermanent that way.