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On photographs, memories, growing old
I was recently visiting my wife’s parents. I returned from a run through suburban New York. Groomed grass. Intimidating facades.
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January 2022

On the Three Dollar Sticker
Tap. Push. Tap. Tap. The mechanical swivel of the front door lock granted us access from the cold and into our just-warm-enough-for-refuge rental home…
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On the Table in the Sun
“Why don’t we sit over there?” she innocently suggested.
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April 2021

On the price of a smile and a wave
How a man on the side of the road adds value to the world every morning
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November 2020

On hidden risks of technological efficiency and cognitive homogenization
I keep a spreadsheet of great thinkers. From Homer to Hume. From Charlotte Brontë to Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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October 2020

On The Changing Faces of the Morning Sky
It is 7:52am. I am tucked into my morning sofa, where I read and write. Second coffee. Brain and soul uncluttered.
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September 2020

On imposter syndrome and Jack London
Every great thinker was once just a regular person like you and me
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On the myth of inevitable progress
We tend to assume progress is inevitable but risk complacency and inaction in belief
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On zebra cakes and bringing your whole self to work
Do you remember Zebra Cakes? These were treasured children’s snacks in the 1990s along with Gushers and Dunkaroos. I hope a number of readers are…
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On nature and the end of a summer
When I was a boy, nature afforded me endless possibility. We built a treehouse in the woods adjacent our home in New Jersey; it really was just a floor…
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On the utility of being radically non-naïve
At the intersection of optimism and pessimism is a realism that helps one pursue creative ambitions, build successful organizations, and face calamity…
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August 2020

On self-imposed repetition and accepting systems that control us but grant us perception of free will
Increasingly we are layering systems into our lives that we chose and controlled, that come to control us should we choose to not live actively and…
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