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CxD #279: Source of your troubles + Happiness ingredients
Identifying with your thoughts is the source of most troubles. In doing so, you are like a fly stuck in a vat of tar. 🪰 Or honey, if you have a sweet…
Apr 28
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Krzysztof Piekarski
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CxD #278: Solar Eclipse 🌥️ + Purple 🟣
Above you can see the local effects of the solar eclipse on the CxD neighborhood: friends and neighbors hanging out together in the middle of the…
Apr 14
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CxD #277: The art of rest + hypocrisy
I would like to stop working all the time, or at least most of the time. I’m lazy at heart, so this aspiration should be easy to achieve in theory. But…
Apr 7
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March 2024
CxD #276: Phone Addiction 📵 + Suicide savior + The Infinities
Approximately 95% of my students are addicted to their pocket computers. Unless prompted, they will prefer to look into their black mirror rather than…
Mar 24
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CxD #275: Far From the Tree 🌳 + Beep Baseball ⚾️ + 🔥 Aphorisms
I read this book some years ago and am bringing it to your attention because it deserves to be read by all human beings. Winner of the National Book…
Mar 3
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February 2024
CxD #274: Even more physics + Astonishing Essay + Philosophical Therapy
Human beings are not made to "live like brutes, but to seek virtue and knowledge,"says Dante's Ulysses. I continue to reflect on why reading books about…
Feb 25
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CxD #273: Back on the Physics + Bobby 😭 + I'm on Fire redux
I’m back on the physics, reading and rereading Carlo Rovelli like a banshee. But like a nice banshee. Rovelli is a quantum gravity theoretical physicist…
Feb 11
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January 2024
CxD #272: Photography + Learning to See
I started 2024 by indulging my senses in this gem, a masterwork of seeing and writing and garnering insights as though they grow on trees. It starts…
Jan 28
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CxD #271: The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse ❤️ + parenting guide for boys + what is natural is easily procured + Montaigne's life of…
I was reading a lot of philosophy the other day. Descartes and Spinoza and Berkley and Kant and fellas like that. After five hours, I needed an…
Jan 14
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CxD #271: The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse ❤️ + parenting guide for boys + what is natural is easily procured + Montaigne's life of imagination
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December 2023
CxD #270: Best reading experiences of '23📚😍; Favorite song of '23🎶; Favorite film of '23🎬
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. ~ Kahlil Gibran I had an…
Dec 31, 2023
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CxD #269 How to Give Style to One's Life; Small Pockets; Best Idea + Mysteries
Unabashedly I advocate all readers to prioritize reading Dale Wright’s latest essay over at Fire Philosophy about using imagination to give style to…
Dec 17, 2023
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CxD #268: Lighting Candles 🕯️ + The Books of Jacob
I like how fuzzy my first Hanukkha’s candle holder came out in this photo, and how simultaneously in-focus my son Bunk’s round almond eyes are. In part…
Dec 10, 2023
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CxD #268: Lighting Candles 🕯️ + The Books of Jacob
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