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After pulling up the video of my favorite scene from Paris, Texas for my last post, the algorithm steered me to this video essay exploring some of the other arresting aspects of the film. Namely, vivid color and deep, quiet meaning. Sometimes, like now, I feel like I could crawl…
In 2014, I self-published an ebook called There Were These People. The book was a mix of fiction and nonfiction. The title came from a misremembered line in my favorite scene from the film Paris, Texas. For all the flaws in that movie, I still return to it almost exclusively for…
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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Today: The past few days have been hour after hour of depression and anger. Maybe it's the air pollution in Lampang, which is raging right now and seems to hit me hard every year. Maybe it's job burnout. Maybe it's my exhaustion with people and the world. Maybe it's just me. I…

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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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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