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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.

Year end thoughts

Year end thoughts

Part I The end of 2025 is rapidly approaching; it's cold outside here in the American Midwest, and I find myself doing a kind of typical (for me) end-of-the-year thinking. This is the kind of thinking that is both backward-looking and forward-looking, where I reflect on the year

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