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Good Grief
Lessons on loss from a play about memory and a real goodbye
Jan 15
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Artificial Whimsy
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2026 currents and countercurrents
What will you swim towards in the new year?
Dec 31, 2025
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The little voice of your desire
Lessons from literature & life on how to listen for it in the noise of external pressures. What do you really want?
Dec 3, 2025
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What Could Happiness Cost—$10 Million?
How Silicon Valley's wealth culture distorts our definition of "enough," and how ambition might regain its imagination.
Nov 19, 2025
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An elegy for now
AI distorts our conception of time & space. Everything is totalized yet summarized, immediately available yet degrees removed. Look up, look around—the…
Jul 23, 2025
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Art, artifice, and the artificial
Can AI make something truly beautiful? The bar for makers is higher now. To risk not making a Mission Impossible 7 Pt. 2, but to risk being disliked. To…
Jul 9, 2025
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Memorial Day 2025
Some long weekend thoughts...belonging is older than language. As our tools get smarter and teams smaller, the question isn’t what we can build…
Jun 4, 2025
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Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself
Preamble: Love has always been shaped by risk, friction, and loss. As AI learns to mirror us more perfectly, the greatest loss may not be truth or…
Apr 30, 2025
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