862: Andrew Levy: A role model for today: Robert Carter III freed more slaves than any other American

Regular readers of my blog know how important Robert Carter III has become to me as a role model. He inspires me. I believe this episode will inspire many of you. If you don’t know who he is, you’re in luck. Here is a post of…

This week’s selected media, October 11, 2026: Blitzed, Seymour: An Introduction, Privilege, Propublica on PFAS

This week I finished: Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, by Norman Ohler: I heard of this book and its premise a while ago, then heard it mentioned a couple times recently. Before reading it, I figured it would document some drug use. I thought…

The end of a volunteering era for me?

I’ve been delivering food that stores would throw away to community fridges, organizations that distribute food to people for free, and directly to people for free since the pandemic. Some people like to connect with others with social media. I prefer volunteering like this way.…

More of what I’m doing when I’m working on my book

I have to add to what I wrote in my post What I’m doing when I’m working on my book. This week I woke up one morning before my alarm and started thinking about a snag that I kept struggling with. I had been writing…

How you can tell when you dehumanize your opponents and why I work against polarization and isolation

We all see how we are becoming more polarized and isolated. We tend to think others are doing it and don’t notice when we do it ourselves. One way is to dehumanize people we disagree with. We see it when others do it and criticize…

A response to people with claimed feigned ignorance that their pollution pollutes and depletion depletes

People tell me that they don’t know that when they buy coffee in disposable cups that their plastic cups end up in the ocean or that when they turn on the lights or air conditioner that they cause pollution or depletion. As if clutching their…

861: Cara Judea Alhadeff, part 1: Actually acting, the joys we feel, and the friction we face

A mutual friend introduced Cara and me. He knew we both were doing our best to live by our values in avoiding hurting others through pollution and depletion. On the face of it, our living situations look different. Her family converted a bus into a…

I counted how many breaths I take while meditating

I’m not claiming a particularly insightful post today, but I wanted to share it anyway. Regular readers know I meditate daily, these days for 25 minutes. Usually I focus on my breath and observe how my mind operates. For no particular reason, I decided to…

This week’s selected media, October 4, 2026: Tonight in Jungle Land, Revolution, The Law, Taxi Driver

This week I finished more books than usual, partly resulting from the rain of the past two weeks, restricting how much time I could spend using the computer: Tonight in Jungle Land: The Making of Born to Run, by Peter Ames Carlin: Growing up in…

A description of my book Initiative

I was recently contacted by someone interested in my coaching them, who since became a client. My policy is to give each person interested in coaching a free call with no obligation to find out if we mutually want to work together. This person asked…