If gold could talk, what would it be saying about the economy right now?

Ties are back.

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This isn't for all of you.

But if you like X and want to use it more effectively—this could be worth your time.

There's one community where I teach a small group what I've learned about writing, authority, and networking on X.

It's this one.

The doors are open now and…

Just look at this astonishing set of graphs. What has happened to Americans' social lives?

Can someone please explain why people buy huge pallets of bottled water? I feel like I’m missing something.

Find the crescent sun

This weirds me out every time I think about it. There is no explanation for this.

Why is the moon exactly the right size to eclipse the sun.

It just is.

May you feel the strange, eerie awe today that comes from the astonishingly improbable fact that our gigantic sun and modest-sized moon appear to be almost exactly the same size in our sky.

Amost as if we were meant to experience such wonders...

This weekend, we went to a farm. My wife went looking for ducklings. In the minute her back was turned, one of our sons got between the chicken coops and came out covered in brown slime: feet, legs, hands. One shoe was off. He was drenched in chicken sh$t.

Words fail to describe…

Saying “it’s complex” is often a way of hiding from our own ignorance.

Use this power wisely.

'It's a helicopter,' I confidently told my wife.

Are you hardcore enough to handle W.H. Auden's reading list for 1941 University of Michigan undergrads?

Over 6,000 pages of material. One semester.

Including the complete texts of:

- Brothers Karamazov
- Moby Dick
- The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)…