HeyJaredPaying Attention: A New Mindfulness Method
We are all drowning in content. I'm trying to stem the tide by reflecting in writing on all the content I consume. And I hope you'll do the same and tell me about it!
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Grief to Relief: bad news and good news (opens the original)
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Allow me to take you on a good news-bad news journey:First, some good news. One of the wisest women I know, someone who overcame tragic family circumstances by devoting herself to learning and personal growth and now offers workshops and coaching to others suffering the same, has written a great book:<div class
AI is going to kill us (if Trump doesn’t kill us first), so read while you can (opens the original)
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A few nights ago I woke up at 2 a.m. and made the mistake of falling into my phone, reading about how AI developers are terrified that their technology is already out of their control and will soon be capable of destroying humanity. This first article quotes all the terrified AI developers:<img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch
Gloria Steinem changed all our lives (opens the original)
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My mother was raised in the 1950s and ’60s to believe she needed to marry and have children in order to have a fulfilling life. She tried hard to achieve that dream, marrying six times and having at least that many live-in boyfriends. She never had any career ambitions. Several of my stepfathers were abusive, and I struggled to understand why she felt she needed a man. So far as I could see, they never did a thing for her. Naturally, my mother tried to raise me to believe as she did that I neede
Remembering Kyle on Overdose Awareness Day (opens the original)
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My amazing, beautiful, brilliant son, Kyle Fisher-Hertz, died of an overdose in 2016. In the ensuing years, while the worst had already happened for us, the national addiction crisis kept worsening. At its peak, during the pandemic, more than 100,000 people a year in the U.S were dying of overdoses. By the end of this year, nearly one million Americans will have died by overdose in the past decade.In 2021, when Kyle had been gone five years, I hosted a video event in which I invited his friends
Climate flooding, Trump lists, and Dolly tributes (opens the original)
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