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Tag: life

  • Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

    Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

    Picked this up browsing in the library last week. Picked and chose from the 12 rules and read about 6 of them I think. Read lots of this on the plane to Oregon for the Eugene marathon with Emily and Chloe. Here is the most memorable part of the book for me. Rule III, pg.…

  • “Grok, show me the first man without sin”

    “In many ways, the project of technology is the elimination of forgetting.” & “We are building perfect records of a life no one lived. And in doing so we are creating a punishment for ourselves that not even the most severe fire and brimstone pastor could imagine: contemporary and continuous judgement in this life.” This…

  • Get a life

    Here is one of those things that when read I nod at the end and go, “Yes. It’s like that.”

  • Tick-Tock

    “It was the summer of 1996, early June, and I was teaching a course at Simmons College in Boston to make some extra dough. Jennifer was clerking for a lawfirm down in Dallas, pregnant with our first child. My dad called. He and my mom were in London, where they had rented a small flat…