Category: Blog
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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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How do you count the bubbles in a glass of champagne?
“How do you describe moonlight?How do you describe candlelight?How do you count the bubbles in a glass of champagne? I don’t know. I just know when I see it, it’s bloody beautiful.” – Ray Hudson, when asked to talk about how Lamine Yamal is so good You could hardly do better than using this as…
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How much should you take the other side for the sake of it?
“One of the hallmark trends of our generation is the fall of confidence in institutions. From the 1970s until now, people have lost faith in almost every major institution, from government to corporations. Post–World War II, America trusted places like General Motors or The Wall Street Journal as organizations acting in society’s interest, serving as…
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My main question right now
I once sent a reading list to my friend Michael, who is a PhD in philosophy and religion, to get his thoughts on using it to try and create a sort of self-directed masters in history, technology, and religion. He wrote back and said something like, “Cool, yeah lots of stuff you’d expect to see…
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Tariffs tariff-ing?
“Who’s paying for the tariffs? US importers mainly. September import price index data shows that US importers are continuing to pay most of the tariffs. The index shows prices before tariffs are applied. If foreign exporters were bearing a large portion of the tariff burden, we should expect to see a large decrease in the index. Instead, we’re…
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We’re Wrong
Read this little world-buster this morning from Philip Roth’s novel, American Pastoral. “You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try and come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot…
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Osteria in Ravello.
Peder Severin Krøyer, 1890
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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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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 🙂