---
title: "Dispatch #28 (June 2025)"
date: 2025-06-02T13:14:42-04:00
draft: false
tags:
- dispatch
references:
- title: "Opinion | There’s a Link Between Therapy Culture and Childlessness - The New York Times"
url: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/therapy-estrangement-childless-millennials.html
date: 2025-06-03T15:48:53Z
file: www-nytimes-com-7wlxcp.txt
- title: "Searls of Wisdom for April 2025 | justin․searls․co"
url: https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-04/
date: 2025-06-03T15:49:19Z
file: justin-searls-co-bifdrg.txt
- title: "The Imperfectionist: Navigating by aliveness"
url: https://ckarchive.com/b/zlughnhk8772ma7qrr9qehwzgng00f6
date: 2025-06-03T15:49:22Z
file: ckarchive-com-yhbgos.txt
- title: "Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era | The Walrus"
url: https://thewalrus.ca/moleskine/
date: 2025-06-03T15:49:29Z
file: thewalrus-ca-714tb6.txt
- title: "Junk Contemplations | Brain Baking"
url: https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/05/junk-contemplations/
date: 2025-06-03T15:49:34Z
file: brainbaking-com-s3rbn8.txt
- title: "How to think - cliophate.wtf"
url: https://cliophate.wtf/how-to-think
date: 2025-06-03T15:49:38Z
file: cliophate-wtf-ja3aad.txt
---
Some thoughts here...
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### This Month
* Adventure:
* Project:
* Skill:
### Reading & Listening
* Fiction: [_Title_][1], Author
* Non-fiction: [_Title_][2], Author
* Music: [_Trans Pacific_][3], Gas Lab & Kazumi Kaneda
[1]: https://bookshop.org/
[2]: https://bookshop.org/
[3]: https://gas-lab.bandcamp.com/album/trans-pacific
### Links
* [There’s a Link Between Therapy Culture and Childlessness][4]
> I thought of the love I felt for the unborn little thing within me — just then, just beginning to make its presence known with a kick and flutter and a flip — and I felt bowled over by all that I had not understood. The love my parents had felt, do feel, that I had recognized in the abstract, I had so often overlooked.
* [Searls of Wisdom for April 2025][5]
> Planet Earth is undeniably a bit of a shitshow at the moment, but I'm actually feeling optimistic that we're approaching the precipice of something that will—once we get to the other side of it—feel like the beginning of a sea change in how information is organized, constituted, and distributed. To wit: skepticism of information technology has materialized and matured from opposite ends of the political spectrum, and advocates from both sides are meeting in the middle with relatively boring policy prescriptions like regulating the use of smartphones in schools and expanding the scope of antitrust actions. Seems… fine, actually?
* [Navigating by aliveness][6]
> And if in a year or two or ten the paragraphs above look hopelessly naïve … well, I think I’ll be glad to have been naïve, in this context. Because I suspect that a certain form of naivete may be a precondition for aliveness.
* [Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era][7]
> “Do you know there’s a section of our customer base that buys a fresh Moleskine every time they come into a store? We have no idea what they do with them”
* [Junk Contemplations][8]
> All of these things hurt my eyes, even though this has more or less been the state of stuff in our home for the past two years. I just can’t get used to it, something keeps on urging me to clean up, and I indeed have the feeling that that is exactly what I do all day long every single day—without much success.
* [How to think][9]
> I expect that when, and if, the AI revolution arrives, people who have the ability to think are the ones who will not be left behind. Thinkers will be the ones who will thrive in these uncertain times.
[4]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/therapy-estrangement-childless-millennials.html
[5]: https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-04/
[6]: https://ckarchive.com/b/zlughnhk8772ma7qrr9qehwzgng00f6
[7]: https://thewalrus.ca/moleskine/
[8]: https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/05/junk-contemplations/
[9]: https://cliophate.wtf/how-to-thi