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David Roberts || Sparks From Culture

David Roberts, Mic'd and Medicated
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Weekly personal essays on wealth, status, and family from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency.

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When reading a novel that grips me deeply and refuses to let me go until the last page, I latch on to the main character and adopt their point of view. Especially if the main character is a man who’s within spitting distance of my age of 64...

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AI Is Not A Living Thing

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Among all the various “takes” I’ve consumed on AI, neuroscientist Anil Seth’s fifteen-minute TED talk on Why AI Isn’t Going To Become Conscious stands out for its timeliness and its celebration of humanity. A link...

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The Manhattan Nursery School Gods

I read an excellent expose this week in New York Magazine about the nutty world of youth travel sports and how parents of very young children are seduced into sacrificing loads of time, money, and familial life to a mostly pointless pursuit...

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Sex, Status, and Self-Esteem In Our Forties

Debbie and I watched The Invite this week. Seth Rogan and Olivia Wilde star in the movie as a forty-something couple, miserable with themselves and each other. Penelope Cruz and Ed Norton are their joyful upstairs neighbors who come visitin...

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Rich Boy Refuge From Reality

I had some bad news a few weeks ago. A friend close to me for a very long time died. My first reaction was to try to shelter myself from the news. To use all the good memories to protect myself.

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  • David Roberts

    Writer of the Substack Sparks From Culture; zealous fan of my family, my Shih Tzu, all things Substack, NYC (lifelong resident); forty year career in finance, now a writer.

  • Mic'd and Medicated

    We say what you’re thinking but don’t say out loud. Mic’d and Medicated is two NYC moms oversharing to build real community. When we say the unsayable, someone always writes: I thought I was the only one. You’re not.

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