HeyJaredSundman figures it out!
An episodic autobiographical meditation. Stories from farms, cities, African villages, Martha's Vineyard, Silicon Valley, molecular biology labs, truck stops, firehouses, construction sites, hacker meets — trying to figure out what it's all about.
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Driving for Trip (opens the original)
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Sundman figures it out! is an autobiographical meditation, in the spirit of Michel de Montaigne, of a 71 72 73 year old guy who lives with his wife in a falling-down house on a dirt road on Noepe, also known as Martha’s Vineyard, that dead-ends into a nature preserve.Incidents, preoccupations, themes and hobbyhorses appear, fade, reappear and ramify at irregular intervals. If you like this essay I suggest checking out a few from the
A marvelous race to the top of the charts (opens the original)
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Sundman figures it out! is an autobiographical meditation, in the spirit of Michel de Montaigne, of a 71 72 73 year old guy who lives with his wife in a falling-down house on a dirt road on Noepe, also known as Martha’s Vineyard, that dead-ends into a nature preserve.Incidents, preoccupations, themes and h
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel chickens out (opens the original)
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[ Since sending this out as an email I have added to the end of this essay an “Addendum in the Spirit of Albert Einstein,” and also fixed some typos and added a few clarifying sentences to the (originally) concluding section. In September, 1905, Einstein published what has become known as his Special Relativity Paper. Two months later he published a kind of followup, in which he said, more or less (and in fancy mathematical language),“Oh by the way, Special Relativity implies E=mc2. Sorry I forg
Julia Child in Paris vs Julie Powell in Queens (opens the original)
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Sundman figures it out! is an autobiographical meditation, in the spirit of Michel de Montaigne, of a 71 72 73 year old guy who lives with his wife in a falling-down house on a dirt road on Noepe, also known as Martha’s Vineyard, that dead-ends into a nature preserve.Incidents, preoccupations, themes and hobbyhorses appear, fade, reappear and ramify at irregular intervals. If you like this ess
Bryan Johnson's sense of an ending (part three of three) (opens the original)
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Sundman figures it out! is an autobiographical meditation, in the spirit of Michel de Montaigne, of a 71 72 73 year old guy who lives with his wife in a falling-down house on a dirt road on Noepe, also known as Martha’s Vineyard, that dead-ends into a nature preserve.Incidents, preoccupations, themes and hobbyhorses appear, fade, reappear and ramify at irregular intervals. If you like this ess
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