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Meditations on life in a mind and society
By Brian Leli
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Ghost Stories #4: James
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…
Jan 29
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I Didn't Say That #21
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…
Jan 27
I Have No Enemies
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…
Jun 17, 2022
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First, Do No Harm
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…
Jan 24
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Jan 22
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I Didn't Say That #20
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…
Jan 20
Contrarian Diplomacy
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…
Jan 15
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I Didn't Say That #19
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…
Jan 13
Symbols & Rituals (Reprise)
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…
Jan 8
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I Didn't Say That #18
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…
Jan 6
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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…
Jan 2
Closing Out the Year
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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