HeyJaredEt Cetera
Marc Sims' substack on culture, theology, art, poetry, and literature.
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Dress For the Girl You Want (opens the original)
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Want to Study Pilgrim’s Progress? (opens the original)
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You Must Go On. You Can’t Go On. You Will Go On. (opens the original)
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You have hit the wall. Your resources have been spent. Small, so very small, you have become: a dry, delicate leaf, curled inward. But what you must do—the very thing that has so hollowed you out—remains. You must still be a parent, a spouse, a church member, an employee, a friend. You must. But the responsibility has been so overwhelming—you had no idea it would be this hard.What you must do begins to feel like some old, pagan god: stone-faced, unmoved by your confessions of weakness. It demand
How to Use AI (And Not Lose Your Soul) (opens the original)
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The Gene of the Machine (opens the original)
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We sit at a table. I slide a small rectangular device your way. There is a glossy, red button on it staring up at you like a cherry. I tell you that if you push the button, it will eliminate any problem you have. Just think of the problem and click, it goes away. You don’t believe me. Not at first. But I explain it in some measure that makes sense. You start to imagine all the needling frustrations you deal with day by day, to the bigger concerns about tomorrow, to the massive, intractable probl
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