A Rich Life
Peter BoumgardenExploring the landscape of morality and meaning in today's market system
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Embracing Finitude in the New Year
1 January 2025
Somewhere in the air between Chicago and Colorado
I write to you from the last leg of an epically joyous and equally exhausting three-part holiday vacation. Note to self (and Kelley): let’s limit this trip to two parts next...
In Memorium
September 2025
Naperville, Illinois.
Sometimes the most profound insights into the living of a rich life come at its end. My dad, David Lewis Boumgarden, passed away on August 27th, 2025, at the age of 74 after a long battle with Lewy Bod...
Navigating Fractures of Class
Harbor Springs, MI
July 2025
I have long wrestled with what kind of writing fits best in a newsletter versus other more “formal” medium -- a chapter, a journal article, a (hard to find time for, perhaps forever in the future) book. Probab...
Slow Down, You Move Too Fast
On or about 2007, to paraphrase Virginia Woolf, human character changed. Steve Jobs released the iPhone, Twitter formed, Facebook opened itself to anyone and changed its algorithm to a news feed, the cloud entered its first year, and a host...
The Lizard Theory of Higher Ed
Universities face an existential crisis. A huge portion of the American public no longer sees their point or purpose. As a result, when the government slashes NIH funding, or cancels $400 million of contracts with Columbia, or forces the la...
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