#398 — Thoughts Without a Thinker

Welcome to the Make and Sense podcast. This is Sam Harris. Well, it has been an interesting two weeks. If you uh have followed me on Substack, you know that um I had to flee my house, which contains my recording studio, and um we have not been back. And it remains to be seen when we will go back.

The house happily was spared, but uh it's very close to houses that burned down, so remains to be seen what we're gonna do about that. I will get back to the podcast soon enough. I think I have a video podcast coming up soon with Rick Caruso to talk about the LA fires, uh, and the uh future of California politics, perhaps. And obviously there is so much to talk about in politics and in the world.

I'm recording this uh just after watching the inauguration. which um brought up several thoughts. But uh two weeks ago, when I was at my desk seeing the first clouds of smoke emerge in the west, I was about to release a uh a sample of lesson content from the Waking Up app. which um I thought might maintain the New Year's resolution frame of mind that I imagined people would be in at this point in January. I must say I'm pretty far from that myself.

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