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The Next Big Idea · 2026-07-06 · 54 min · 9,340 words

How to Live a Long and Useful Life

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Hey, Caleb here. Hope you had a good long weekend. Maybe you celebrated the way I did. Friends and family. Food off the grill, fireworks in a light summer drizzle.

Juvenile glee giving way to adult panic when you realize those fireworks are coming, not from an officially sanctioned display. But from the neighbor's back yard. Or maybe you skipped it this year. Not feeling too hot about America. Which I get.

My sister told me she saw someone this weekend wearing a t shirt that said Descent. Is patriotic. I also spent some time this weekend thinking about this country. Our history. where we might be headed.

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