Category: Blog
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So What, Now What?
As always, Ben’s note is sharp and on the surface feels like the right read of the situation. For someone skilled and informed below the surface, I’m sure there’s a lot more moving parts but taking it at face value its contents concern me. Greatly. I just think it’s time to get serious and see…
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Get a life
Here is one of those things that when read I nod at the end and go, “Yes. It’s like that.”
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Camping as a useful measuring stick of parenting
For the past two years, we’ve gone camping about five times. Five isn’t a big number but it’s certainly relative. Packing for five (there’s that number) people in the family, kids 5 to .83 years old, is a lot. Getting there and unpacking once we’re home are hard, but it’s incredibly worth it for core-memory…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Shepherd: setting sail on his bike!
Shepherd’s first known solo bike ride! What day! O joy!
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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…
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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…