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Spiritual Sundays: An Experiment in Unstructured Time
Image by Jared Rice on Unsplash I've been trying something different with my Sundays lately. Instead of letting them become an extension...


Feb 202 min read
A Feature, Not a Bug: Beyond the Illusion of Control
Image: Erik Mclean on Unsplash I spent the first week of February not knowing what my next book would be about. Well, I knew the general...


Feb 133 min read
What We Really Talk About When We Talk About Phones and Teens
Image generated by ChatGPT (it's a whole other post) My last four posts were written with my scientist hat on. Now that I have finished...


Feb 62 min read
Who's The Anxious Generation? Adult Fears About Modern Masculinity
The Anxious Generation Book Review: Part IV Image from Wix Media I’ve tackled Haidt’s methodology issues  and the issues of healthy...


Jan 303 min read
The School Conundrum: Beyond Simple Solutions to Teen Anxiety
The Anxious Generation Book Review: Part III Photo by John Smith on Unsplash While Parts I and II critiqued Haidt's methodology  and...


Jan 234 min read
Digital Natives: Beyond Phone Anxiety
The Anxious Generation Book Review: Part II Image from Wix Media Remember how, in Part I , I talked about Haidt's tendency to make...


Jan 166 min read
Book Review: The Anxious Generation
Part I: Introduction and Methodology I've been wrestling with Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation  - agreeing with many points while...


Jan 93 min read
The Great Book Parade of 2024
This year, as in the last two, my challenge was to read 50 books. I read very slowly, especially in English. I added to the challenge...


Dec 19, 20242 min read
Year Review 2024
Biggest Accomplishment My biggest accomplishment this year was finally finding a publisher. I’ve debated this a lot, and I’m pleased with...


Dec 12, 20242 min read
Scale and Systems
Image from Wix Media I’ve been thinking a lot about systems lately. Several different conversations ended up being about them. I talked...


Dec 5, 20242 min read
Blogging Into the Void
I don't feel like writing a blog post; every idea seems trite and contrived like it had been discussed ad nauseam. So, I thought I might...


Nov 28, 20244 min read
One Year of Being a Magician
I learned to read when I was about three years old. I read death notices. Back in the 1980s, when someone died, the family would print...
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