A Very Present-Tense Culture

I just got back from a short weekend trip to Mendocino[^1] so this will be a short one. It’s funny how the books that are actually “life-changing” often aren’t the books we’d name as influential. In my case, probably the single most important book in my entire life is, of all things, Dr Sanjay Gupta’s Keep Sharp . It’s a pretty standard pop-science introduction to Alzheimer’s, albeit with an…