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Becoming Adults

December 5, 2021

I’m reading A Hunter Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st century, by Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. I regularly listen to their podcasts and always appreciate

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My Biological Mom

December 3, 2021

My biological mother passed away the day before thanksgiving. I thought I’d tell the story of how she came to be a known part of

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Orlando Furioso: Deception

November 27, 2021

Reading through Orlando Furioso right now. The 8th canto starts off: Oh quante sono incantatrici, oh quantiincantator tra noi, che non si sanno!Che con lor

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Identity and Erasure

October 30, 2021

I was reading a tweet from someone the other day reacting to Dave Chappelle’s latest show, and she claimed he was “erasing the identities of

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Systems and Injustice

October 12, 2021

I just finished rereading The Prince, by Niccolò Macchiavelli. I’d read it years ago, probably just out of college, but wanted to reread it, this

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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.