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August 13, 2026

★ Ordinary Abundance

Edward Bellamy once imagined that music on demand would be "the limit of human felicity." A modern apartment is full of things that once drew the same kind of awe. ordinaryabundance.com clipped Aug 2026

A beautiful meditation on the incredible progress and endless miracles we live with, AND a frightening reminder of the inevitability of the hedonic treadmill.

February 23, 2026

The Duality of Man

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February 11, 2026

New system

You write posts in Obsidian. The Blog Publisher plugin decides what can be published. Publishing sends files to a Git repository. Vercel notices the GitHub change and rebuilds the Astro site. The live site serves the new result. Writing…

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February 24, 2023

★ Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls

Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s The Evidence. There is one giant, obvious, international, and gendered cause: Social media. Instagram was founded in 2010. The iPhone 4 was released then too—the first smartphone with a front-facing camera. In 2012 Facebook bought Instagram, and that’s the year that its user base exploded. By 2015, it was becoming normal for 12-year-old girls to spend hours each day taking selfies, editing selfies, and posting them for friends, enemies, and strangers to comment on, while also spending hours each day scrolling through photos of other girls and fabulously wealthy female celebrities with (seemingly) vastly superior bodies and lives. The hours girls spent each day on Instagram were taken from sleep, exercise, and time with friends and family. What did we think would happen to them? jonathanhaidt.substack.com clipped Aug 2026

We are now 11 years into the largest epidemic of teen mental illness on record. As the CDC’s recent report showed, most girls are suffering, and nearly a third have seriously considered suicide. Why is this happening, and why did it start so suddenly around…

February 9, 2023

I love you Adrienne, Happy Adrienne Day!

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February 9, 2022

I love you Adrienne, Happy Adrienne Day!

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March 13, 2021

Onward, Brave Cosmonaut!

Cosmonaut
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February 9, 2021

I love you Adrienne, Happy Adrienne Day!

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September 12, 2020

Missed Opportunities

https://youtu.be/Z1YNqyZ84as Back in 2011 we were so naive. THIS is how we told our kids we were going to have another baby? No explosions, nothing on fire… So lame! I'm not even sure we did anything for a gender reveal other than tell…

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February 9, 2020

I love you Adrienne, Happy Adrienne Day!

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