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May 2023 Reading

May 29, 2023

Capitalism and Freedom- Milton Friedman  (1962) I have been familiar with Milton Friedman for a while, having listened to some of his talks, interviews, and Q

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Rome 2023

May 28, 2023

Earlier this year my oldest son asked if we’d want to go with him, his wife, and her parents to Rome. We decided that this

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The Sword of Damocles

May 19, 2023

I only recently became aware of the story of the ‘sword of Damocles’ because I had heard it mentioned in several different podcasts. So I

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Face Update

May 18, 2023

This is a photo of my face 7 weeks in from when I stopped taking Gleevec, a medicine that prevents CML cells from building up

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dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.