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Can Humans Thrive In The AI Age?

I’m Larry Maguire, work psychologist and writer. Sunday Letters is the weekly newsletter exploring the human struggle to find meaning and purpose in the technocapitalist age. AI is changing everything–how do we respond?

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I’ve been publishing Sunday Letters in one form or another since 2015. It is a conversation with myself, an exploration into the human condition amidst an alienating and destructive technocapitalist system of living. Subscribe and join in the conversation.

Sunday Letters Is Home

Sunday Letters: Welcome Back

11th May 2025 By Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

I wrote to you earlier this week on Substack with the news that Sunday Letters was making its way home to this website. This current issue is, in fact, the first time that Sunday Letters reaches your inbox directly from the backend of this self-hosted WordPress site. Before now, I relied on third-party services such as MailChimp or Substack. From now on, I'll handle each issue with the tech on …

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Annie Dillard on Time, Structure, Coffee, & Learning A Trade

4th May 2025 By Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

Welcome to the return of Sunday Letters, the weekly newsletter on life, work, and the pursuit of happiness. This week, I'm reaching back into the archive and a short piece I wrote several years ago after reading The Writing Life by Annie Dillard. For today's issue, I have taken a few hours to run an edit over things and add additional thoughts. I'll do this for the next few weeks and months in an …

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Albert Einstein on The Need For A Socialist Economy

2nd May 2025 By Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

Albert Einstein Socialist was published first in The Sunday Letters Journal: https://sundayletters.larrygmaguire.com/p/albert-einstein-on-the-need-for-a by Larry G. Maguire on Sun, 11 Jun 2023 08:48:59 GMTI am a socialist in my base orientation, in my philosophy for life and work. I have always been this way, even before I knew what Socialism was. I am a socialist in the sense that I am for people …

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Wellington Street

14th December 2023 By Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc. I remember sitting in the classroom on what may have been my first day, but I can't be sure. It was Miss Tobin's class, and I must have been only five years old. The tables were flecked grey, like lino floor covering. When pushed together, they'd make a hexagon for us to sit around in our miniature red plastic chairs. The …

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The Problem With Society

3rd December 2023 By Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

As concisely as possible, this is the most significant contributing factor to the problem with society. It is the fundamental risk to the survival of our species. I'm not optimistic in the short term, but in say one thousand years if humans are still around, I am, in fact, optimistic. I'd like to think that by then, we will have figured out the answer to this problem. Maybe by then we will have …

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Intelligence: You Either Have It, Or You Don’t

27th November 2023 By Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

Intelligence, whatever way we wish to discuss it, is a highly-regarded faculty. According to Etymology Online, we derive the word from the Latin intelligentia, “understanding, knowledge, power of discerning; art, skill, taste”. It has its origins in the Proto-Indo-European root leg, meaning “to collect” or “gather”. And so it seems, to be intelligent is to possess the capacity to gather, …

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