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Latest — Oct 5, 2025

From78 S2.2E019

Audio Time Travel, Technology, & Quantum Leap I talk about how it's been a while since I last released an episode of this podcast. Between the release of my last episode (018) and this one (019), I re-listened to all the episodes I made in season 2. This

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"Watchful negligence"

I read this in a New Yorker profile of Tim Berners-Lee, the man who is credited with inventing the word wide web: [Tim's mother] Mary, a believer in “watchful negligence,” would let him and his three younger siblings wrap themselves in extra perforated tape. I now really like

Close Reading & Psychoanalytic Listening

In the article Close Reading Is For Everyone, Dan Sinykin writes, So what is close reading? As my co-editor and I write in our book, “Close reading is the practice of paying attention to a passage of text to account for at least one aspect of its meaning and to

⌬ Links 22-7-25

I've been thinking about using [S][J][P] as a way to record the things I'm reading, watching, listening, or just exploring on the web. Today, I'll give that a try. Text (Reading): (1) This essay on the release of Apple's Liquid

Checking in 22-7-25

Hello, Tuesday is always the busiest day of my week. Today is Tuesday, and it is even busier than usual. I’ve got sessions (of psychoanalysis/psychotherapy) booked back to back all day long. Because I use the Lacanian practice of a variable-length session, some may end at points that

Access to healthy communities

In this post on his Substack, Chris Arnade makes the following observation about men today. If they don't have access to healthy communities, they will find unhealthy ones. The term I've used for the phenomenon of unhealthy communities welcoming people who can't find a

Curiosity, Judgment, Mia Khalifa, & Bella Freud

Speaking in an episode of Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud, Mia Khalifa says: I think, as I’ve grime older, desire doesn’t mean anything. I think curiosity means a lot more than desire. That’s what moves me, when someone is curious, that when someone […] desires me [in a

Later?

When I was young, there would be something I needed to do, and I'd say to myself, "I'll do it later." Then I would go and take a nap, or make a bagel, or watch something on TV. Time went by, and then I&

Reading so far in 2025

Here is a list of books I've read so far this year: * The Night in Gethsemane: On Solitude and Betrayal, by Massimo Recalcati * Red Team Blues, by Cory Doctorow (Book 1 of 3 in a series) * The Bezzle, by Cory Doctorow (Book 2 of 3 in a series)

Self authorization

From this post by Wesley Verhoven There’s this trap a lot of us fall into, especially early on. We wait. For someone to notice us. To give us a shot. To say, “Yes, you’re ready.” But most of the creative breakthroughs I admire, and many of the ones