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Delbert Lowery's avatar

Thanks for posting. Sorry about losing your show but I love your last few lines in this letter. Perfect,

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ron barden's avatar

Thanks for the post.

A very dear friend of mine passed away last year - he had a great line about life: “sometimes you just have to laugh”

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David Riedman's avatar

That’s an amazing story. Thanks for sharing instead of pretending like a failure didn’t happen. Maybe it wasn’t really a failure at all.

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Rui Monteiro Mascarenhas's avatar

Stephen, Thanks for sharing. If you ever think of doing a show in Boston, I’ll be front row. As a economics student in Portugal, your book inspired me - my college was very Chicago driven in its teaching.

and your podcast was my running buddies when I started to travel the world for work! Keep on doing a great job! Hope to see you in Baaaaawwwstooooon soon 😀

Cheers

Rui

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Jana's avatar

What a beautiful read! I think I've been receiving the newsletters for a while now without ever taking the time to truly read them. I'll make sure to rectify that now.

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Patrick Kelly's avatar

As to what to call your event that almost never happened, how about "dipity-serene". I've always liked the notion of serendipity, and have been a beneficiary of the phenomenon for most of my life. Dipity-serene suggests (to me) the mirror image of serendipity.

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JOAN Vassilakos's avatar

Thank-you for sharing this account. I am sure with some hindsight some important thoughts will come from this, philosophical ones. Very much appreciate your work .Keep t it, and take care.

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Lucio Pozzi's avatar

Well written Mr Dubner.

I am far from LA but I’ll remember this show more than others.

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Graziela's avatar

I had heard the podcast version of this episode. Thank you for making yourself sound vulnerable

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