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Beach Reads: Get Lost in One of These

Sound the quitting horn! For my 9th annual beach reads edition, I’m recommending novels featuring colorful, troubled, haunted characters. Kindly indulge my starting with a personal story. My wife, Megan, had pretty serious surgery a few months back. (She’s fine. I appreciate your concern. A breaded casserole would’ve been nice.) Girding for a long day at The Brigham, I packed…

Always Be Evolving

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up How to Do the Inner Work by Susanne Madsen. With a subtitle that highlights emotional healing, it was easy to imagine it’d be corny, mystical, hackneyed even. Self-help books will naturally have those elements, but this one grabbed me straight away with its message of radical action, starting with trusting…

Learning to Get Unstuck

There’s a fair amount to be anxious about these days. Pick a card, any card: frayed democracies, fractured alliances, railroaded citizens, “your body, my choice,” on and on. It’s one thing to obsess over yoyoing stock portfolios, but how’d you like to be a young adult bracing for the third recession of your short life as you flirt with such…

On Taking Tech Bros to Task

Perhaps Kara Swisher was destined to cover the internet, given that both she and it came into existence in 1962. Back then the web was envisioned as an Intergalactic Computer Network with the potential to deliver “unity among humankind, too, brought to you by the miracles of technology.” Assuming you agree we’ve fallen a smidge short of that lofty goal,…