Status Updates From Birthday

We're at the point in the book where his ignorance is solvable. It seems to me a nice idea in midlife if we could just go back to school for a year and learn things again

This might be an effect of age: you start to see young people from the outside, as an aesthetic phenomenon, and then they become strange, acquiring an objective weight and an opacity that could hide anything.

Chapter two is about two ships passing in the night and recording ideas when you write them down. I guess? This work feels like a journal, I'm not sure what to make of it.