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I’m blogging again.
This is an updated version of something I wrote for this site’s Public Notebook last month. Since then, Dan Sinker wrote that he’s thinking similarly. And things have gotten worse on Twitter (W. Kamau...
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Oppenheimer and the moral weight of technology
Boris Carmi /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection / CC BY 4.0 I know it’s Christmas Eve but you’ll have to forgive me for going deep on...
View ArticlePN #7: “I Drove All Night” is perfect
What are the songs that drop by unannounced in your brain every 3-4 months? “Drove All Night” is one of those songs for me. Is it a perfect song? Yes. Yes, it is. Do you know WHY it’s a perfect song?...
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Reading, listening, liking: NYE ’22 edition
Lydia Loveless at Golden Dagger in Chicago on December 30, 2022 A selection of things I enjoyed this month: This paragraph from Grey Horse’s newsletter, written by fellow OG Chicago Twitter person Kate...
View ArticlePN #8: untitled
There are some nights when you can’t outrun the moon. It hangs over you, following your thoughts, resistant to the morning. We tell ourselves there’s a happy ending, a resolution. When we peer inside...
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The words of Martin Luther King we won’t see on Twitter this year
“Martin Luther King, Jr. San Francisco June 30 1964” by geoconklin2001 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 I’ve been thinking a lot about this Martin Luther King quote today: And the final thing that I...
View ArticleProtected: PN #9: Fathers and daughters
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View ArticlePN #10: just stop for a second
Is it fear or boredom? Is it depression or uncertainty? Are you burnt out or shutting down to recharge? Why don’t we think about our minds the way we do our bodies? If you have a cold with the...
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What’s next after elections
The following is a slight re-working of something I read at “The Word on 103rd,” a local storytelling showcase at Made Artisan Collective in Beverly. If you think some of this sounds familiar, it is....
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20×2 Chicago: “Are You Ready? – July 8th, 2023
Photo: James Allenspach 20×2 Chicago is a storytelling/performance series hosted by Andrew Huff. In it, 20 people answer one question in two minutes. This edition’s question was “Are You Ready?” and I...
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