This is an excerpt from today’s issue of my weekly newsletter. --- The universe began as an enormous breath being held. Who knows why, but whatever the reason, I’m glad it did, because I owe my existence to that fact. All my desires and ruminations are no more and no less than eddy currents generated by the gradual exhalation of our universe. And until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on. In the short story Exhalation, Ted Chiang tells the tale of a scientist in a civi...
