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Carlebach’s sad, dark story of the Shvartze Wolf (“Black Wolf”) has always captivated me. Listen to it here, if you don’t know it already: What is this story about, really? When I first heard it, it touched me deeply, but I think I didn’t know what it was about. It’s mostly set in a forest on Shabbat, and it touches the themes of hidden/revealed, of the pain of…
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It’s incredible to notice just how damn obvious everything is in hindsight: financial/economic decisions – I’m thinking of how getting a mortgage when rates were low is now so obvioulsy the right move – what’s “really” going on in a relationship or a complex dynamic, even how to solve a technical problem. Once the situaiton plays itself out, it’s not…
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I am Nadav Recca. I live in San Francisco, California Taos, New Mexico and I like to watch sunrises & sunsets. I also spend time forcing my bike up big hills, forcing my brain to speak new languages, and forcing computers to do complicated things. That’s about all the forcing I try to do in life. The rest is just riding the earth . I would love for you to say hi .
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Our clock divides the day into two 12-hour halves. Twelve was an important number for many ancient civilizations, which gave us our 12 hour days and nights. I wondered what our clocks would look like if that number was different. What if we had 11 hour clocks ? or 24 hour clocks ? Or 37 hour clocks ? With 11 hours, the differences are subtle but drive the clock into uncanny-valley territory, which…