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UpdatesWe flew back to Dublin last night - four weeks in Spain has been perfect to recharging a little bit as I move into the last phase of the consultation process for my role at Meta. The heatwave over Western Europe looks like it will...
A GP explores whether modern psychiatry risks pathologizing normal human distress by broadening diagnostic criteria and lowering thresholds for mental illness.
§ Hello there. Happy summer solstice, Father’s Day, Juneteenth, etc. § In the vegetable garden our bush beans have started flowering and the tomato plants are all fruiting happily. Did you know that saffron comes from a crocus that is...
Happy Father’s Day! Starting mine with a morning hot tub. 🔥💦
They move through the night as if stitched into it, seamless and soundless. You don’t hear an owl arrive. You feel it—the brief shift in the air above your head, a whisper of movement. It always feels me with a sense of awe. The silence...
I’m a big fan of John Lennon (the American author, not the English musician, but, sure, I’m a fan of the musician too). I’ve read most of his books, and it saddens me that literature is such a niche interest … Continue reading →
Ow, my neck…
A health-obsessed culture paradoxically undermines longevity by prioritizing self-optimization over social connections, the very relationships that most…
Most of my time this week went into goal-setting and on learning Japanese. On goal-setting: This was both attending training, and writing/reviewing goals for my department. Nearly there. On learning Japanese: I have…
From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 127-131: The Ukrainian Cossacks, who had begun their international career in the 1550s by serving the tsar of Muscovy, Ivan the Terrible,...
I should stop eating junk...