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The Library We Carry Within
The Strange Feeling That Something Is Missing Most people who spend time reading today eventually notice a curious feeling. They finish article after article, newsletter after newsletter, and post after post, yet struggle to remember what they have just read.…
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Standing Outside Our Own Time
The Difficulty of Seeing the Age We Live In One of history’s quiet ironies is that people rarely understand the age in which they are living. Looking backward, we comfortably divide the past into familiar periods. We speak of the…
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The History That Cannot Be Faked
When Publishing Became Easy The internet was once celebrated as the place where anyone could become a publisher. Before the web, sharing ideas with a wide audience usually required passing through institutions that decided which voices deserved to be heard.…
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About Tom
Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.