Author Archives: Dave

what you’re telling is just a story

Posted on 2021-07-31 by Dave

When you understand that what you’re telling is just a story. It isn’t happening anymore. When you realize the story you’re telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then … Continue reading →

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Commentary: TPH #336: How Your Emotions Are Made

Posted on 2021-07-15 by Dave

Commentary on: TPH podcast #336: How Your Emotions Are Made | Lisa Feldman BarrettTranscript on HappyScribe I almost immediately disliked her because of the laugh at the beginning. I don’t know why but it struck me wrong. Then she started … Continue reading →

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Commentary: TPH Podcasts from 2021-03-21 / Roshi Norma Wong

Posted on 2021-07-08 by Dave

I’m way, WAY behind on my podcasts. I don’t have a drive any more and I miss my podcasts. I’m experimenting with listening to them during the day but it’s always been really hard for me to listen while I … Continue reading →

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Outer Order, Inner Calm…

Posted on 2019-04-24 by Dave

Is a book about decluttering by Gretchen Rubin. She was on the 10% Happier podcast recently and seemed cool. Book is about organization. I’m not big on organization but she had some pretty good hacks.

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Refuge in Grief

Posted on 2019-04-24 by Dave

It’s OK to not be OK. If your life has exploded into a million little bits, you don’t need platitudes. You don’t need cheerleading. You don’t need to be told this all happened for a reason. Some things cannot be … Continue reading →

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The Failures of Capitalism

Posted on 2019-04-22 by Dave

OpenCulture.com: Economics 101 by Ray Dalio Dalio himself isn’t setting out to build a worker’s paradise or to make financiers like himself obsolete, but he does have some trenchant thoughts on capitalism’s failures—and they are many, in his estimation. I … Continue reading →

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You can’t have freedom without safety

Posted on 2018-08-02 by Dave

This showed up in my RSS feed: An LA gallery is selling “Molotov cocktails” from a vending machine. It included an image of a vending machine that sells fake molotov cocktails with a slogan on the side: Freedom not safety … Continue reading →

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The campaign to put science and tech leaders in public office starts now | Ars Technica

Posted on 2017-04-02 by Dave

Yes, more of this please. The two attributes I want in a politician are logic and ethics. Source: The campaign to put science and tech leaders in public office starts now | Ars Technica

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The Need for Competition

Posted on 2017-04-01 by Dave

THIS!!!! Holy shit how can the Republicans who are supposedly so pro-market allow the market to be dominated by so few players?!? Because they’re not really pro-market? They’re just pro-rich assholes giving them money. Jason Furman, the chair of the … Continue reading →

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Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.

Posted on 2017-03-25 by Dave

Source: Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.

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