I publish a monthly e-mail newsletter to share contemporaneous happenings and reflect on enduring truths. It's published over at Buttondown, but I archive the posts here for posterity.
Searls of Wisdom for December 2023
I bought Becky a piano for Christmas so I've been brushing up on the only instrument I know how to play:
Congratulations on surviving 2023, everyone. Was touch and go there for a minute, but if you're reading this: you made it.
Don't worry, I'm not going to do a year-in-review for this month-in-review newsletter. One layer of retrospection is plenty. So let's just keep our heads down and focus on the month that was December.
Searls of Wisdom for November 2023
I finished Starfield last month, which included this unsettling scene of my own avatar giving me some free advice:
Having a receding hairline is generally miserable, but the frustration is especially acute when futzing with a video game's character creator. As much as I'd love to grant my digital analog the curly mop of hair I shed long ago in my early 20s, I can never bring myself to so brazenly signal my dissatisfaction with my own appearance. I will admit, though, I usually consider selecting the hair I wish I had… before inevitably choosing whichever of the three balding scalps matches mine best.
Searls of Wisdom for October 2023
This month in Disney World living, my brother Jeremy and I got to meet Aaron Paul and Brian Cranston at an event promoting their Dos Hombres mezcal:
Searls of Wisdom for September 2023
Wow, September came and went in a hurry.
Searls of Wisdom for August 2023
Each month, it's my goal to get these newsletters out on the first of the month, and each month I fail. But in fairness to me, I took two overseas vacations in August and neither time did I bring anything to write with. Add to that, I just got home from Greece with that hip new variant of Covid everyone's talking about. So this month's newsletter is now a third of a month late as a result.
Searls of Wisdom for July 2023
Whenever you read something I write, please know that I was having exactly this much fun writing it for you: 
Greetings! It was a slow month in the content mines, as I've shifted my focus back to Top Secret work at Test Double, the fruits of which will probably not be apparent for six months or longer. As a result, I can't really answer what July was "all about", because I was squirreled away working on stuff I can't talk about just yet.
Searls of Wisdom for June 2023
This month, I wrote 3500 words for you about my life—a Searls of Wisdom record! But, unfortunately, things got a bit too softwarey for these parts, so we're going to put it on the Test Double Blog instead. (Stay tuned—hopefully we'll have it up in the next week.)
Searls of Wisdom for May 2023
Greetings, Internet! I am back with a second issue of this stupid newsletter you forgot subscribing to.
Searls of Wisdom for April 2023
Greetings! I hope you're doing well. Are you doing well? (Feel free to reply and tell me whether you're doing well!)
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