Category: modern life
Everything to do with society as we know it today and the inscrutability of modern life.
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You Invented a Fake Ending to ‘You’ve Got Mail’
Why so many of us mis-remember the ending of You’ve Got Mail because our brains fill in what comes next and the fact that we all come up with the same alt-ending probably says less about the movie and more about us.
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Inconvenience is the price of community but also––
Enough of these economics-inspired slogans.
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We All Need a Version of Ourselves We Can Live With
How we justify the decisions that shaped us, and what it takes to see ourselves honestly without falling apart.
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Thinking in the age of ChatGPT
On whether AI-powered writing tools are helping us work smarter, or just helping us avoid thinking altogether, based on what MIT saw happening inside people’s heads.
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The age of proof
An essay about age, seriousness, and what we lose when we try too hard to get life right.
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Letting love do its work
Thoughts on The Velveteen Rabbit, and the quiet courage it takes to let ourselves be transformed by love.
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Cleaning my fridge
My list of marinating thoughts on culture, friendships, the internet, society, and life in general.
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Friendship Stuff Part II
Another set of messy thoughts on friendships, mainly focusing on how to be a better friend. There’s an explanation for the moth picture.
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Unfinished Conversations 