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…

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…

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…

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…