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Below is a piece of fiction I wrote when I was living in Bogotá in 2014. It was very much inspired by Dave Eggers’ Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, which I’d just finished reading when I wrote it. Eggers’ book was written all in dialogue. And…
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Today: 1. Wendell Berry: The Work of Local Culture (Part 1) 2. Let’s Stop Calling Everything We Don’t Like a Conspiracy Theory 3. My Flamboyant Grandson 4. “I Like Tacos”: Russell Brand on Covid 5. Pfizer Is Raising Drug Prices and Paying for Good PR 5. The Fifth Wave…
I haven't been able to get The Avett Brothers' “No Hard Feelings” very far out of my head since watching Rick Rubin listen to it on a podcast in April. But I don't particularly want to get it out of my head either. So I'm going to explore that song and its lyrics and the places…
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A guiding principle often associated with doctors and medical students is one I was taught as well when studying journalism: first, do no harm. The words come to mind often, both when I read and write. It happened again yesterday, and then again this morning, as something I wrote…

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Today: 1. Legendary Producer Rick Rubin on Creativity as a Way of Being 2. Rick Rubin: How to Access Your Creativity 3. Algorithms Don’t Feel. Data…
There’s a section on contrarianism in the Michael Ignatieff essay I shared the other day. It stood out to me for a few reasons: I’d already created a…
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Today: 1. The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling 2. How to Pursue Truth in Six Steps 3. Epistemological Panic, or Thinking for Yourself 4. Inside the…
In my experience, writing is like opening a door that leads to a room with more doors, and then repeating this process until it feels like I’ve opened…
Today: 1. Grief Made Me a Person 2. Dr. Sam Harris: Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind 3. The Year the West Erased Women…
One of the things I’ve learned about myself over the years is that taking a break from writing really just means finding other, less writerly ways to…
I woke up early this morning prepared to put in my last day of work before the new year. Then I saw an email instructing me to take the day off if I'd…
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