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Jan 17

Notenik at Fifty

Notenik has just hit fifty — fifty ratings in the Mac App Store, that is! — so I thought this might be an opportune time to reflect a bit on how the app has evolved over the last several years. First, I’m happy to report that the average rating is…

Productivity

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Notenik at Fifty
Notenik at Fifty
Productivity

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Dec 17, 2022

Thank God for Elon Musk!

Elon has been shaking things up lately. Especially for Twitter users. Many people had gotten used to thinking of Twitter as a sort of public space, a digital town square where every reasonable person could find their own soapbox, and perhaps even a few people to stop and listen to…

Twitter

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Thank God for Elon Musk!
Thank God for Elon Musk!
Twitter

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Dec 12, 2022

Why Inflation Will be Hard to Contain

After staying at a pleasantly ignorable level for years, inflation is once again making headlines. And so the pundits and talking heads are falling over each other trying to explain what’s going on. And, of course, the Russian war in Ukraine, as well as lingering pandemic problems, are making their…

Inflation

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Why Inflation Will be Hard to Contain
Why Inflation Will be Hard to Contain
Inflation

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Nov 13, 2022

The MAGA Bubble Finally Bursts

Back on 7 Apr 2021 I wrote a piece titled “The Decline of the Republican Party — First Gradually and then Suddenly.” For those who haven’t been paying attention lately — the suddenly part has now finally arrived. And then, back in May of 2021, I wrote a second piece…

Politics

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The MAGA Bubble Finally Bursts
The MAGA Bubble Finally Bursts
Politics

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Oct 26, 2022

Using Notenik as a Project Launcher on my Mac

I’ve started using my own Mac app Notenik as a project launcher lately, and I wanted to share how I’ve set this up, in case someone else might benefit from it. (Notenik is available as a free download from the Mac App Store.) I’ll try to break this down into…

Notes

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Using Notenik as a Project Launcher
Using Notenik as a Project Launcher
Notes

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Oct 11, 2022

An Overdue Update from The Practical Utopian

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted anything from The Practical Utopian, so I thought it might be time to give everyone an update on what I’ve been up to over the last couple of months. Updates to Notenik Although I enjoy writing opinion pieces, and appreciate all of you who read…

Wisdom

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An Overdue Update from The Practical Utopian
An Overdue Update from The Practical Utopian
Wisdom

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Aug 2, 2022

We Are Multi-Tribal

I’ve been reading a lot lately about human tribes: Sebastian Junger’s excellent book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, and The Dawn of Everything, by Graeber and Wengrow, to name a couple. …

Tribes

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We Are Multi-Tribal
We Are Multi-Tribal
Tribes

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Jul 21, 2022

Thinking about Abortion(s)

Along with many others, of course, I’ve been thinking a lot about the abortion issue of late. I guess I’ll start these reflections with my first exposure to the procedure, fourth-hand as it was. One of my college friends, in my freshman year at Michigan, had an older roommate who…

Abortion

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Thinking about Abortion(s)
Thinking about Abortion(s)
Abortion

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Jun 30, 2022

The Widening Spiral of Modern Society

Towards a Reasonable Middle: Part 1 — A little over a century ago, Irish poet W. B. Yeats wrote what is probably his most famous poem: “The Second Coming.” The cultural context for the poem was, in some ways, similar to ours today: the 1918–1919 flu pandemic was still active, the First World War had recently ended…

Politics

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The Widening Spiral of Modern Society
The Widening Spiral of Modern Society
Politics

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May 23, 2022

Playing with Language while “Settin’ the Woods on Fire”

A couple of things that happened recently got me cogitating on the idea of language as playground. First, I had a chance to hear Anne Curzan speak. Curzan is the talented and engaging dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan (my alma…

Language

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Playing with Language and “Settin’ the Woods on Fire”
Playing with Language and “Settin’ the Woods on Fire”
Language

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