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There is an alternative: the unfashionable but powerful notion of letting time use you, approaching life not as an opportunity to implement your predetermined plans for success but as a matter of responding to the needs of your place and your moment in history.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
A Democratic Spirit is one that combines rigor and humility, i.e., passionate conviction plus a sedulous respect for the convictions of others. As any American knows, this is a difficult spirit to cultivate and maintain, particularly when it comes to issues you feel strongly about. Equally tough is a DS’s criterion of 100 percent intellectual integrity—you have to be willing to look honestly at yourself and at your motives for believing what you believe, and to do it more or less continually.
The US is producing more oil than ever before. The nation’s crude oil production hit [13.2](https://t.densediscovery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.chartr.co%2Fnewsletters%2F2023-11-27%3Futm_source=DenseDiscovery-267/1/0100018c36c7b4b8-d42ccb76-2e4e-4662-aaec-b5a6b60a9bcf-000000/PByM6uuwqqeT_oZuGTOP6fEBDvcA2AFEwX2lkHdOoIU=329) million barrels per day, surpassing the pre-Covid peak.
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