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[Seth Says] Oft Given, Rarely Taken
Hello Friends! Welcome to the Bob Newhart Sh-- I mean, the Buttondown mind of-- I mean, my new Buttondown newsletter. Which, okay, is basically the same as...
[Seth Says] Short and Sweet
The Peter Dinklage of emails. (well, he was sweet in Cyrano.) This is early because it's not a real newsletter, it's just a test email to see if you can...
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[Seth Says] I'm OK - You're ????
Happy Holidays, Friends. By which I mean that it is the holiday season, and I hope this timespan contains some happiness for you. (One might well ask why I...
[Seth Says] Gratitude: The Lonely Journey
A weird thing about gratitude is that it sounds like "Grrr, attitude!", which is sort of the opposite of what it means. But that's not really what I had on...
[Seth Says] Never Don't Not Stop
You can tell I'm not an optimist because I use a quadruple negative. (Clearly I need one more negative, making it quintessential.) (Hi Five!) There's a joke...
[Seth Says] Sponsored By No One!
Hello Friends, Welcome to another exciting edition of this newsletter, which is not sponsored by anyone, and is written entirely by me. I can't promise that...
[Seth Says] Create Yourself By Your Own Bootstraps
An interesting thing about the phrase "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" is that it is mostly used today to mean "Put in the hard work and effort and...
[Seth Says] License To Kill -- sort of
I have a license to kill. I mean, I guess it's not technically a license to kill, but in some sense the end result is the same. Just like a license for a...
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[Seth Says] All You Can't Eat!
Longtime subscribers used to not loading the same photo that is always there should be sure to see the above photo, which is a departure from usual. It is a...
[Seth Says] With Great Power...
...you can do all sorts of stuff! You can bend people and even rules to your will. (Maybe that's why they call it "going on a bender"?)(It isn't.) Having...
[Seth Says] Amateur Nouns In Your Area
I was going to put something in the subject line about this newsletter being safe for work despite the title, but is it really safe to read anything at work...
[Seth Says] Always Be Enterplaining
People are exhausting to deal with. This is a general truth about people. Or I guess arguably, it's two general truths about people, both that they are...
[Seth Says] Cleaning Probably Won't Kill You...
...but there's always a chance! Most accidents do occur in the home, and cleaning is exactly the sort of thing that disturbs long-dormant evil forces which...
[Seth Says] "Just two things of which you must beware..."
"...don't drink the water and don't breathe the air." Yes, with 3 straight days of air quality warnings here and today's AQI over 150, today's newsletter is...
[Seth Says] It's a Matter of Pride
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! This newsletter proudly supports LGBTQ+ people in living their best lives. (This newsletter has also apparently gained sentience? I guess...
[Seth Says] The Benefit Of Being Useless
TGIU: THANK GOD I'M USELESS I know it seems like a super-weird thing to say, right? Like, isn't being useful sort of a goal? And no, this isn't just due to...
[Seth Says] You'll Just Have To Wait
"...you can't hurry love, no, you'll just have to wait, That is, unless she tells you, 'Hurry up, or we'll be late.'" GREETINGS, READERINOS! Yeah, that...
[Seth Says] It's easy to predict the future...
...as long as you don't need to get it right. People are predicting the future all the time, and if you predict enough futures, some of them are bound to be...
[Seth Says] Lose Your Soul With Just 50 A Day!
I hate networking. I was going to write this newsletter and got distracted by Facebook and sure enough I didn't scroll down more than 2-3 pages before an ad...
[Seth Says] How does a toddler eat oatmeal?
Everything Everywhere All At Once. Yes, last week I finally got around to watching the winner of this year's Oscar for Best Picture and countless other...