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  • Grinding Lenses in an Age of Fast Thought

    The Disintegration of the Paragraph When looking at the prose celebrated across today’s online writing platforms, the first impression is rarely one of density or intellectual weight. In large commercial writing contests,…

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    Grinding Lenses in an Age of Fast Thought
  • Will the Day Come When We No Longer Open Excel?

    The Monolith and Its Historical Compromise For forty years, our daily work on a computer has followed a familiar routine: to work with any piece of information, we first open a large…

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    Will the Day Come When We No Longer Open Excel?
  • What Is Unconditional Hope?

    The Radiant Gift Beyond Our Calculations Entering a parish church for Sunday Mass carries a distinctive weight as the liturgical year draws toward its conclusion. The cycle of readings turns our attention…

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    What Is Unconditional Hope?

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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.