When the mountains that surround you become your mountains. Redefining your place in the world.

Note: When this was originally written, there were fires throughout the US Pacific north west.

On making adjustments (or not) to my books and training because we're all constantly changing.

Links:

My current list of books

A reminder of the many forms of privilege and what to do when it's spotted.

My Eulogy for Kimberli Diemert, my wife, at her funeral August 26 2016.

Learning to tell someone a story they already know.

Links

Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Daily Show

"The Ballad of Penny Evans". Lyrics

Continuing to go high when they go low.

Links:

Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the thing with feathers"

Richard Pryor's Live at the Sunset Strip

The transcript of Michelle Obama's DNC speech

Ignoring marketing advice and respecting my readers.

Links:

Austin Kleon Newsletter

Stretching our attention span beyond social media posts and reconsidering James Baldwin.

Links:

Pew Research

Anil Dash's post

Merlin Mann building a better to-do list part one and part two

The debate on sending kids back to school in the early months of COVID in the US.

Links: The Importance of Reopening America's Schools this Fall

CDC report on children and the flu

COVID and lung scarring and heart damage

CDC report on Multiple Inflamatory syndrome in children.

The importance of nothing.

Errata: The date given in this episode is incorrect. The essay was originally published a week earlier on July 28, 2020.