Category: Blog

  • Music, man, music.

    There’s some word for feeling nostalgia for a period of time or experience you’ve never had and when I listen to the music I like the most, I feel this. Particularly the music of the 1960s and 1970s: I especially get this when I watch live stuff on YouTube. Like just now, I’ve been stuck…

  • Priced out of marriage

    This post in the Free Press seems true in a way that’s undervalued, and will never be fully appreciated, by the politicians in Washington. I think Wendell Berry and E.B. White would understand this man’s concerns. Berry from lived experience and White from a more theoretical standpoint. Berry lives and farms in rural Kentucky, and…

  • Dirt Track Racing

    For years, we’ve driven past the Travelers Rest Speedway in Travelers Rest, SC, on the way to Michael and Emily’s. Curious is the perfect word for what it’s felt like to drive past something for years and wonder what it would be like to go to that place. It was incredible. We met Michael at…

  • Shepherd: setting sail on his bike!

    Shepherd’s first known solo bike ride! What day! O joy!

  • Are City Run Groceries Stores a Bad Idea?

    Quick thought on Zohran Mamdani and policies he’s proclaiming that I know nothing about, especially considering the fact that I live in a small town of 8,000 people rather than New York City. As of now (I haven’t checked) Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is contenting to be the mayor of New York City. Much…

  • The AGI Economy is Coming Faster Than You Think

    From Rohit Krishnan in Freethink (new to me). If Pascal’s Wager can be applied the “when AGI”, and I think it certainly can be, it feels wiser to me to assume the kind of thinking below is more likely than not. What to do about that? I have no idea. I don’t see myself rapidly…

  • Writers and thinkers I most respect

    On a run this morning, while listening to Dwarkesh interview Tyler Cowen, I came up with what I think is my modern canon of writers and thinkers whose work I most consume. Here it is: Hopefully I’ll add more, but the list being short gives me lots to take in from a few Good People…

  • Going where you don’t know you’re going

    It seems true to me that you have to eliminate more than you add in order to get to where you want go. Or said differently, get down as close to ground level of the ‘thing’ it is you want to do or manage to do. The best running I’ve done in my running life…

  • To Sadie, on Your 30th Birthday

    I can remember, and feel, what it was like to fall in love with you.  Summer of 2016. The string of numbers representing a year has never meant as much to me as those do.  The year I was born is the only other string that meant anything to me at that point, but all…

  • Music and Protest

    The 1960s obviously produced some of the best music during very turbulent times. You have Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Joan Baez (Oh, Freedom!), Simon and Garfunkel, and Peter, Paul and Mary just to name a few. They were very political, but in retrospect we enjoy their harmonies and nascent methods (Jimi Hendrix!). We…