009: Dry heat, dog stories, midlife ambitions, billionaire babies

We remember our dogs and their eating habits, like the time Shawn’s dog Larry wolfed down a family-size box of Frosted Flakes. We reflect on what it means to live intentionally at midlife, how to balance striving and ambition with acceptance and surrender. We share a few thoughts about the first days of Trump2 and particularly what’s going on with the billionaire oligarch set.

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John Ganz—public intellectual (not sure how else to refer to him) who writes in a clear-eyed way about politics and society, illuminating current events through historical and philosophical context. Shawn highly recommends three excellent pieces he put out this week: Mob Rule, Welcome to Vichy America, and Returning to Origins (revisiting the seminal work by Hannah Arendt).

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