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I wrote the What Could Go Right? newsletter for The Progress Network (TPN) earlier this week. You can read it at the link below. The open mind movement…

Jun 25

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…

Jun 17

Thailand decriminalized marijuana on Thursday. The law is confusing, and the messaging around it has been contradictory. But in spite of that, I view…

Jun 11

Geckos sometimes crawl inside air conditioners. You know where this is headed. It happened again last night. I turned the air conditioner on in the…

Jun 2

Once upon a time, I was on a flight from Mexico to the US. I had my earbuds in and was doing a pretty good job of tuning out airplane life. But then I…

Mar 5

Each of these posts made my eyes well up for different reasons this week. Do me a favor. Click on the last link below and read the full Charles…

Mar 3

First of all: I know. Ukraine. I'm seeing and not wanting to see everything you're seeing and not wanting to see. And what can one say in response to…

Mar 1

A great way to avoid discomfort and escape uncertainty is to form a swift and immovable opinion. And by "great" I mean "awful." A much better way, I…

Feb 24

Below are a few things that I felt were worth appending to my February 19 post. I watched the first one, a talk by the journalist Mónica Guzmán, a few…

Feb 21

“No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.” That's the short story writer George Saunders misquoting Einstein. The story…

Feb 19

Below you’ll find another take on misinformation. This one is from Matthew Yglesias, who says there's no evidence to support the idea that…

Feb 16

Joe Rogan is a podcaster. He appears to work out a lot. I believe he also does some other things, such as stand-up comedy, BJJ, and smoke weed. You may…

Feb 14

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