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What I'm Reading — April 2023

How Rick Rubin lost 130lbs, Jaron Lanier, Amy Jay, Sarah Fay, Holly Whitaker, Toni Bentley, Daniel Duane, Lyle McKeany, Soaring Twenties, Minda Lane, Thomas J Bevan, Charles Eisenstein & Flow State

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📖 The Surrender: an outstanding (and very explicit) erotic memoir by Toni Bentley

📖 El Capitan: Historic Feats and Radical Routes by

Daniel Duane

📖 The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast, by Michael Scott Moore

can everyone kindly shut the fuck up about AI
by
Alex Dobrenko`

I also love Jaron Lanier’s take, that There Is No A.I. “There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.”

I’m writing a utopian novel & essays imagining a more beautiful future by

Elle Griffin

Words To Live by in 2023 by

Lyle McKeany

The editorial code of

Soaring Twenties
a Substack writing collective

I Did What I Had To by

Anna Fusco

Crazy Women by

Rae Katz

Creation & the reclamation of my attention by

Taylor Gage

No News Is Good News by

Thomas J Bevan

Understanding the Dislocation Theory of Addiction — by way of

Holly Whitaker
’s Recovering Roundup, AI edition

Alex Perez on “masculine writing,” among other things — by way of

Michael Mohr

Safety Third by

Charles Eisenstein

The Rebirth of Rick Rubin — how he lost 130 pounds in 15 months

Loving Where You Live by

Amy Jay

A classic from

Holly Whitaker
on 9 Reasons The Words “Alcoholic” and “Alcoholism” Should Die.

If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why. — NY Times → which reminds me how I’ve been saying that Advertising Is Obsolete.

Serialized memoir on Substack! Cured: The Memoir by Sarah Fay

Men, Myself, & I: Revelations of an Opened Marriage by Minda Lane

🎧 Sidirum—some great music to work by, from Flow State

🎧 Rick Rubin Says Trust Your Gut, Not Your Audience by

Bari Weiss

And of course my own writing from this past month:

A desperate move, a mistake, and a wreck that made everything worse.

A desperate move, a mistake, and a wreck that made everything worse.

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Apr 26
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Think of the 🤍 like button as "I read the whole thing"—or just "I'm happy to be here."

Think of the 🤍 like button as "I read the whole thing"—or just "I'm happy to be here."

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Apr 21
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Buying a house in front of a diesel bus stop with an old friend who didn't make enough driving a cab to cover his half of the mortgage and...making a run for it.

Buying a house in front of a diesel bus stop with an old friend who didn't make enough driving a cab to cover his half of the mortgage and...making a run for it.

Bowen Dwelle
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Apr 19
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Sex is Better Sober

Sex is Better Sober

Bowen Dwelle
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Apr 18
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Early days in the advertising-industrial complex, why nobody wants to pay for writing online, and why most conferences are so terrible.

Early days in the advertising-industrial complex, why nobody wants to pay for writing online, and why most conferences are so terrible.

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Apr 13
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I never thought I'd be writing the words: "My Morning Routine" — and, Everything Cookies

I never thought I'd be writing the words: "My Morning Routine" — and, Everything Cookies

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Apr 12
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E19 / Meditation and Intuition with Scott Britton

E19 / Meditation and Intuition with Scott Britton

Apr 10
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43 Of My Favorite Memoirs—Some of Which I Guarantee You Haven't Heard Of

43 Of My Favorite Memoirs—Some of Which I Guarantee You Haven't Heard Of

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Apr 8
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Lycos the wolf spider, and meeting Jane in Boston

Lycos the wolf spider, and meeting Jane in Boston

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Apr 4
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Amazing picture. Paradise at night 🌃

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