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1. At the New York Times, Alice Lassman provides an eye-opening reflection on AI and intimacy. AIs often function as a place to take worries...

Several Sundays ago, during church service, I found myself thinking about Johnny Appleseed.

You know, the folk hero some of us hear about in elementary school. More specifically, I found myself thinking about a silhouette lithograph that has been in our home for several years. My wife found it at an estate sale, and I liked it immediately.

Depicted by black shap...

The story of how people start smoking is rarely all that interesting. They all tend to follow the same narrative arc: social smoking to just-for-now stress smoking to planning your day around smoking. Nicotine is, as far as chemicals go, highly addictive, so it doesn’t take much of a push to get those skis moving downhill. Over the last month, I walked back up that s...

A wonderful breakout session from the recent NYC Conference:

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I am listening to a podcast while my daughter naps in the hospital crib beside me. Her IV arm is draped across her face, and the striped hospital blankets gently rise and fall with her breath. It is Sunday evening. I should probably put on another Bible podcast, but after the latest overwhelming update from the doctor, I just need to distract myself and decompress.

I g...