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Sometimes, when the months are dark, so is the music I listen to. I have a few favorites from my youth, all bands that are radically pro-environmentalism and animal rights. Thus, when I’m running through a deserted office district on a dark February evening with my AirPods in…
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I wanted to write about two series I binged the last few months and the personal and epochal transformation that has happened between the two of them…
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In one of the later Mad Men episodes (The Monolith), the show’s protagonist Don Draper is whining about not having his old job and being hung over. His…
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So yes, I numbered the last update wrong. Numbers are always tricky. As a younger man, I read John Allen Paulos’s Innumeracy, Mathematical Illiteracy…
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This is a service update to let you know I’m leaving Twitter. Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform I joined in April 2007 isn’t the reason, but it is…
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I just finished listening to Mike Duncan’s The History of Rome. The 73-hour show chronologically chronicles the history of the (Western) Roman Empire…
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Last week we handed out an encouragement award for sustainability (“pluim” in Dutch) to a team that had enabled the use of hundreds of thousands of tons…
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Over the year and the projects that filled them, I’ve had hundreds of colleagues. Now, I have thousands. The first good thing about that is that…
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