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Journal

The journal tag is a bit different than the notebook tag… The journal or personal thoughts, feelings, reveries, etc. that I want to document. The notebook, on the other hand, is this a bunch of stuff that I find I don’t wanna lose track of.

Top of mind | Scale

I read the following via The Convivial Society newsletter. One of the key principles of a convivial society: there is a scale appropriate to the human experience, and we do well to operate within it. That’s so well put! 1. “There is a scale appropriate to the human experience.

Monday | Truth

5/6/2024 Top of Mind One of the topics that has been on my mind very frequently for many months is the concept of truth throughout the teaching of Lacan. Here are some of the questions that I’ve been considering. 1. What is the relationship between truth and

Thursday | Arbitrage

5/2/24 I spent the early morning hours reading a few articles on The Atlantic. The most interesting one was The Diminishing Returns of Having Good Taste, by W. David Marx. In the past, tastemakers in the worlds of fashion, art, and music established careers through this sort of

Tuesday | Knife

4/30/24 I heard Salman Rushdie interviewed on The Ezra Klein Show this week (Apple Podcasts, NYTimes). In this interview, Rushdie read the following text from his most recent book, a memoir Knife of his being attacked and almost killed in 2022. Klein asked: You write, “This is as

Monday | More on The Iliad

4/29/24 Top of mind: More From The Iliad On Saturday, I posted something inspired by something I read in The Iliad. It focuses on an exchange between Agamemnon and Achilles, which takes place very early in Book One of the text. What happens is this: Agamemnon has used

Thursday

4/4/24 Travel day. I'm writing this after settling in at the hotel where I'm staying. When I left Chicago, it was snowing, and when I got off the plane in Fort Lauderdale, it was sunny. The temperature was in the 80s, and it was

Wednesday

3/4/24 The way I pack is so stupid. Yesterday, I got everything packed. Then, today, I was thinking about what I packed and how I packed it, and I decided I needed to do it all over again. Why can't I just pack it the way

Tuesday

2/1/24 I spent most of the day doing clinical work. During breaks, I picked up different things I'm going to need for the trip and packed. Top of mind: I've been thinking a lot about the Lacanian concept of the lying truth. This started

Monday

1/4/24 I will be traveling to Clinical Study Days later in the week, and I'm feeling pre-travel nervous energy accumulate, as it always does for me. The morning has been divided between clinical work (e.g., psychoanalytic sessions) and video calls with people to plan and

Everyday choices

Everyday, there is so much stuff (books, podcasts, long-from articles and blog posts, films, audiobooks, comics, music, games, tv shows, etc.) I want to spend time absorbing. Every. Day. But time and my attention are not unlimited. Both are finite. So I’ve got to make choices about what gets