Big news. I’m writing this from my dining room table at home. It’s nice. The only beeping I’ll hear today is from appliances if I use them, or perhaps a synthesizer if I get frisky (maybe in a few days). I am definitely exhausted from 5 days in hospital but I can just chill here …
Category Archives: Capitalism
“What’s a Guggenheim?” (aka the promised good news post)
So this post echoes my insane fall of applications post. First of all: probably nobody should ever apply for 11 things like I did. But it was a hell of a good year professionally. Tl;dr: we will be in two places next year. Carrie will be based at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral …
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Mixed Pfeelings on the Pfizer Shot
So today I got the first Pfizer shot, and an appointment for the second one on my birthday in August. I’ll take it as a present. When I learned I was eligible Monday and called to make an appointment, it occasioned an actual adrenaline hit to my system. This morning, I woke up like a …
“The economy basically works.” No, it doesn’t.
Last week, I saw the U.S. fed chairman Jerome Powell utter these absurd words on the news in response to the precipitous decline in the stock market and the swelling ranks of unemployed people. No, it doesn’t. [Tl;dr: capitalism sucks. If you have money, give some away right now. Here are some organizations I like. …
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