Archive - How About This

Temporary focus on other things

Jan 24 •

Q&A with Shane O'Mara of Brain Pizza

A neuroscientist answers a few questions for us

Jan 17 •

Passwords - the unlockers of worlds

Forgetting a magic key reminds you of other important things

Jan 10 •

To start a new journal or not start a new journal

This is a question that I had, here's the answer

Jan 3 •

December 2023

What do you do when Substack gives you what you've asked for, plus thoughts on 2023

Some frank observations about this year in this newsletter

Dec 27, 2023 •

After the open letter

Reflections on the previous week and the Substackers Against Nazis open letter

Dec 20, 2023 •

Substackers Against Nazis

A collective letter to Substack leadership

Dec 14, 2023 •

Rarely asked but interesting questions about the holidays

Have you ever considered these - maybe not but still

Dec 13, 2023 •

The reader's dilemma - to read or re-read

Perspectives on the words that flash by your eyes, enter your brain, and hopefully get stuck there like flies in a web and what happens if they don't

Dec 6, 2023 •

November 2023

What do you do when you prefer not to

Or, instead, do you push on to get to the other side

Nov 29, 2023 •

Turning into a softie and more

Rethinking my dedication to hard stuff and other related thoughts

Nov 22, 2023 •

The AI problem that everyone talks about vs. the AI problem that almost no one talks about

What happens when AI becomes too sophisticated to question or duplicate?

Nov 15, 2023 •

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