Image: Erik Mclean on Unsplash I spent the first week of February not knowing what my next book would be about. Well, I knew the general...

Image generated by ChatGPT (it's a whole other post) My last four posts were written with my scientist hat on. Now that I have finished...

The Anxious Generation Book Review: Part IV Image from Wix Media I’ve tackled Haidt’s methodology issues  and the issues of healthy...

The Anxious Generation Book Review: Part III Photo by John Smith on Unsplash While Parts I and II critiqued Haidt's methodology  and...

The Anxious Generation Book Review: Part II Image from Wix Media Remember how, in Part I , I talked about Haidt's tendency to make...

Part I: Introduction and Methodology I've been wrestling with Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation  - agreeing with many points while...

This year, as in the last two, my challenge was to read 50 books. I read very slowly, especially in English. I added to the challenge...

Biggest Accomplishment My biggest accomplishment this year was finally finding a publisher. I’ve debated this a lot, and I’m pleased with...

Image from Wix Media I’ve been thinking a lot about systems lately. Several different conversations ended up being about them. I talked...

I don't feel like writing a blog post; every idea seems trite and contrived like it had been discussed ad nauseam. So, I thought I might...

I learned to read when I was about three years old. I read death notices. Back in the 1980s, when someone died, the family would print...

There’s a distinction between optimism and hope. I heard it first in a podcast (in Hebrew) and found it later in a paper by Jeffrey...

I’ve been testing the water by talking to people IRL about my book. On the one hand, each conversation is different. I open up the...

I know the spooky season is technically over, but I got distracted by The Great Reorganisation of 2024 , and I’ve been trying to write...

My Dearest, My, how you’ve grown this year. I can’t believe you are fifteen already. I feel like I only had you yesterday, and (as you’re...

I’ve been feeling overwhelmed lately. Like I have too many things to do. Like I’m forgetting something important. It took me a while to...

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on my relationship with my phone. I find that if I have an excellent relationship (or a terrible...

A year ago, we woke up into a nightmare. What I still find hard to believe, what re-astonishes me even today, is that we are still living...

I don’t like going out. I’m an anxious person, and going out involves all sorts of unexpected snafus that usually heighten my anxiety....

I recently started my 16th morning-pages notebook. I’ve been doing morning pages more or less regularly since the end of 2020. Most days,...