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For my new subscribers: I write these letters about once a month and try to pair them with an ebook giveaway.

Inventions are never divorced from the problems the inventors were trying to solve.

Billions of humans instantly recognize an old jolly fat man with a white beard, a red suit, and a bag full of toys.

All we need is good health and good relationships.

I left Russia for America when I was thirteen — that’s a difficult age to make cultural and language adjustments.

Words help us remember.

When I was a kid, I slept in my grandparents’ bedroom.

Can evolution shape the world humans made for themselves?

What other species of animals accumulate wealth over several generations?

We are the heroes of our own journey through life.

The Dutch have a word for a feeling that encapsulates “finding happiness in someone else’s happiness:” gunnen.

Thanksgiving is almost upon us.

I know I’m being opaque with the title.

I’ve heard it said that if we just hang on for 10 to 15 years more, science will be able to reverse our body’s age to that of a 20-year-old.

We live in a vast universe that spans enormous scapes of time and space.

The Latin root of the word extravagant means “to wander outside or beyond.”

Time really does march forward implacably.

Humans are bound to the places they inhabit.

It seems that every culture has stories of magical kids taken into ordinary households to be raised as their own children.

Humans have always told stories to each other — parables and fairytales as warnings disguised as amusement, juicy gossip as social news, fish stories as self aggrandizement.

For many many years, I’ve been a sales associate at Amazon.