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Three bodies
On adding a daughter to the mix.
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Ryan McCarl
April 2023
Studying vocabulary (or anything else) with ChatGPT
ChatGPT has made it easy to create customized study materials.
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Ryan McCarl
January 2023
Music I loved in 2022
A year-end recap of the music I listened to.
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Ryan McCarl
July 2022
Top Gun and other guilty pleasures
Top Gun: Maverick is propaganda for hypermasculinity, but I loved it anyway.
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Ryan McCarl
June 2022
Government in the womb
On the Supreme Court’s expected decision to eliminate abortion rights.
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Ryan McCarl
April 2021
On starting a law firm
Taking the plunge and founding Rushing McCarl LLP.
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Ryan McCarl
Vaccination Day
I just received my second dose of Moderna's vaccine.
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Ryan McCarl
March 2021
Music discovery: Ben Howard
An experimental folk-rock singer-songwriter.
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Ryan McCarl
KFC, Trump, and Terrace House: more international conversations
Three more conversations with ordinary people in Japan.
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Ryan McCarl
Feel the fear and do it anyway
We grow through small victories over fear.
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Ryan McCarl
Forgetting and relearning languages
On speaking Japanese for the first time in years.
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Ryan McCarl
On waiting
While you’re waiting on Project #1, start Project #2.
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Ryan McCarl
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