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Assymetry
The most difficult part of being someone who takes care of others is the asymmetry. It’s not the actual care that’s draining. Checking in on people is central to what I do and who I am. Often I find myself having to check in on people — and show care to — people who I…
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Severance and Montaigne
The connection between the cultural phenomenon TV show Severance — which I am currently blogging about at severanceblog.com — and Michel de Montaigne is most clear in the sage’s brilliant “Of the inconsistency of our actions” essay and especially his bits and pieces quotation: We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition…
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Translations Update
I have completed my first round of translations, all of the Montaigne Volume 1 essays have completed round one. I’m going to go back now and standardize my process, which I invented on the fly somewhere in the middle. Once that is done, I will move on to applying any new thoughts that came up…
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New Project: Severance Blog
I’ve taken the last couple days to begin some Spring Cleaning of my blogs and to open up a new project. My next blog-to-book project is about the AppleTV+ series Severance, and you can find it at severanceblog.com. As for all of my other content, I’m in the process of bringing it all under this…