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MWD 64 - um, hi?

Or where I've been and what I've (not) been doing

May 6, 2022

February 2022

MWD63 - On Working Well, With Others

or why, lately, my brain feels like jello before it sets

Feb 3, 2022

November 2021

two tiny thoughts about boats, recorded months apart in my 2020 notebook

Nov 18, 2021

October 2021

MWD62 - On [Exact/Drastic/Time/Structural] Change

Or why I have been trying to write this newsletter for weeks

Oct 21, 2021

September 2021

MWD61 - On Information and Identity

Or why none of the things we hope might work is likely to convince people to change their mind

Sep 22, 2021

MWD60 - On Going Where the Thinkers Are

Or why public intellectualism is alive and well ... but might be on YouTube?

Sep 9, 2021

MWD59 - On Reading Alone, Together

Or why you will almost never "find me in da club"

Sep 1, 2021

August 2021

MWD58 - On the Stories We Tell Ourselves about Ourselves

Or what happens when we assume we are the main character

Aug 26, 2021

MWD57 - On Thinking (and Reading) Out Loud

Or how sometimes all those open tabs are like the abundance of a late summer harvest

Aug 16, 2021

MWD56 - On Goodness

Or why individual freedoms require an eye toward the collective good

Aug 6, 2021

July 2021

MWD55 - On Obituaries and Horoscopes

Or why I just can't quit my newspaper habit

Jul 15, 2021

June 2021

MWD54 - On Innovation

Or how this appliance commercial reveals the lies of modern America

Jun 10, 2021

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