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[repost] The brain wants what it wants, 🧠♥️
or else it does not care. Emily Dickinson was wrong about anatomy but right about love. (THE BODY IS THE SOUL #6)
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October 2023

Quick update. Still on hiatus....
I plan to start up again but not until mid-2024. Here's why.
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July 2023

RIP Sinéad O'Connor
I don't know how even a brave soul like you could survive the suicide of a teen child.
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May 2023

Too big to succeed.
Important cultural context for the Hollywood writers' strike.
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April 2023

Goodbye for now, and thanks.
PLAY IT BY EAR will go quiet so I can concentrate on writing a book.
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Join me on Notes
A new place to connect that is specifically not owned by Elon Musk and never will be.
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My dear friends and readers:
update regarding my mother.
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March 2023

Life in a memoir trance
...is fruitful but only sometimes fun and also hard to sustain.
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February 2023

(1) Please wish me well on my March sabbatical...
Also: (2) Should you read all 896 pages of THE DELUGE? and (3) a quote about emotional intelligence worth mulling over.
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[Audio] Exist locally, despair globally.
On the challenge of maintaining a stable, useful perspective.
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Exist locally, despair globally.
On the challenge of maintaining a stable, useful perspective.
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AI chatbots have no souls but also no accountability.
The real reason to be spooked by last week's weird tech reporting. (THE BODY IS THE SOUL #7)
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