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Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian and the Search for Meaning: Free Livestream This Friday

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Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian and the Search for Meaning: Free Livestream This Friday
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At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life in an alien world, I started keeping notes on my search for meaning while working four jobs to pay my way through college. On October 23, 2006, I began sharing my discoveries — passages from books, links to neuroscience studies, reproductions of 16th-century Japanese woodcuts — in an office email to seven colleagues. They in turn began sharing it with friends, who began sharing it with

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