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Situation Normal

Michael Estrin, Alex Dobrenko`

Stories for people who enjoy humor with a side of humanity and a dash of insight

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Latest Issues

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2025 for the Wins

If you’re new to Situation Normal, welcome to this newsletter’s (mostly) annual tradition of celebrating wins. We celebrated our wins in 2020 — a year built for losing, if ever there was one. We did it the following year, too. I think we sk...

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Good guy with a gun

A friend recently told me he stopped following the news. “I realized that it just made me anxious and angry, partly because that’s what it’s designed to do, I guess, but also because it’s usually stuff I can’t do anything about.” He was tal...

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The Floating Head Phenomenon

I was in New York City last week for work. Before I left Los Angeles, my boss asked if I was “freakishly tall,” or “abnormally short”? Her question was odd, but not unreasonable. Although we’d worked together for eighteen months, we’d never...

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Walking in the shadow of the AI apocalypse

The other day my neighbor, Arthur, asked if I was still a writer. When I’m in a sour mood, questions like that can get under my skin. Nobody asks plumbers if they’re still plumbers, or dentists if they’re still dentists, or blackjack dealer...

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Authors

The writers behind this newsletter.

  • Michael Estrin

    Going got weird, I turned pro. Essays & humor @ Situation Normal; Thoughts on crime fiction & book news @ Slacker Noir. Day job @ Prof G Media writing No Mercy / No Malice with Scott Galloway. Opinions mine, unless stolen from someone smarter.

  • Alex Dobrenko`

    a dude described my writing as "if Hunter S. Thompson was a dad" and I think that's pretty good

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