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What do you think? Is the best move sometimes to not win an argument - to let someone get it out of their system until they're ready to hear you?

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I come from the school of thought of being a good listener and from a place of understanding. But I do think this is a great layer to add to my arsenal when a tough client comes around.

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"Never be rattled. Like, ever. When the author wants to be wrong, I won't stop them. It's their book." The short of it: don't let them smell weakness! You know what? At the end of the day they wound up listening more after that tense moment.

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Wrapping up one of the hardest audiobooks I've ever edited. Author decided to rework almost every sentence as we went, ad libbing on the fly. Asked the director how he deals with a difficult author. His answer:

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All three of these are saying the same thing: stop treating addicts and the homeless as "other." Deal with root causes instead of managing symptoms from a distance, without compassion.

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What Psychiatry Gets Wrong About Addiction | Doctors in Dialogue Ep. 3

The other is two addiction psychiatrists debating what "recovery" even means, and who gets to define it. Harm reduction vs. abstinence, coercion vs. self-agency. It's usually a conversation behind closed doors. It shouldn't be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoKJ...

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YouTube video by Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry

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Street Psychiatry: Meeting Patients Where They Are

One is with a street psychiatrist in Chicago who takes his care onto the sidewalk, into encampments and train stations. His point: homelessness is fundamentally a housing problem, not a moral one. Most people there aren't there by choice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqwa...

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YouTube video by Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry

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It hit close to home for me, I've lost friends to addiction, and it overlapped with work I've been doing on Doctors in Dialogue, a podcast I produce/edit for the Group For The Advancment of Psychiatry Two episodes kept coming to mind while I worked on this book.

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Last Day: How to Stop Losing Our Loved Ones to the Opioid Crisis

Last Day: How to Stop Losing Our Loved Ones to the Opioid Crisis by Stephanie Wittels Wachs weaves her own story, losing her brother to an overdose, with doctors, policy people, and folks in recovery she's interviewed over the years. Heartbreaking. Hopeful. amzn.to/4wC6CH3

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Last Day: How to Stop Losing Our Loved Ones to the Opioid Crisis [Stephanie Wittels Wachs] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Last Day: How to Stop Losing Our Loved Ones to the Opioid Crisis

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I work on a lot of audiobooks and don't want to flood feeds with "look what I edited" posts. But every once in a while one moves me enough to talk about it. Not because I edited it, because I think it's worth your time. A thread 🧵

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Fascism didn't win because it was strong. It won because the opposition wasn't unified and those with power welcomed them suppressing the working class. My review of John Foot's Blood and Power 👇

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just wrapped recording the latest Doctors in Dialogue Was a great chat about the benefits & struggles of the public & private health care systems & why doctors need to break the stigma of political neutrality. Housing and food access are mental health issues. Just need to edit it!

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

OMG my mind is blown right now. Working on a cooking show right now with some Michelin star chefs from Barcelona and I learned that tomatoes weren't introduced to Europe until colonization of the Americas. Didn't touch Italian cooking until the late 18th century.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Solid entry point if you want a zoomed-out overview of this period. Currently reading Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism, with Riall's Garibaldi book still on deck. Check out my full review on goodreads www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Knew nothing going in, came out with a decent grasp of the timeline and the real question underneath it all. Was unification a good thing, or a failed experiment Italy's still dealing with today? Questions still asked today.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Became a dual citizen a few years back. Figured it was time to actually learn the language — and the history — of the country whose passport I now carry. Started with Lucy Riall's Risorgimento.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Here are the details of the story: In 1914 a doctor figured out that pellagra killing tens of thousands of Southerners wasn't a germ. It was system that failed the poor. The medical establishment spent twenty years and 100,000 lives refusing to admit it.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Podcast version of For History's Sake's new article: Poverty as a Plague is now live. 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6jFC... 🍎 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... Working on video version nowish...

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Poverty as a Plague

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In 1916 a doctor injected himself with the blood of infected patients to prove that poverty was the contagion not the disease. It took 20 years and 100,000 American deaths before anyone in power would admit to it app.beehiiv.com/posts/f1bacb...

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Here are my full thoughts on Medium medium.com/actuallythou...

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This REI/Meta AD story is a pretty simple reminder: don’t blindly trust AI. Have a human check the work. Also, these tools should not be forced on companies or users. They should be opt-in. Meta has spent too much money on AI that they won’t even fake a policy rethink for the public.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Crazy week! Wrapped editing for the new Statue of Liberty exhibits dropping in like... a week! Totally different challenge. Also finished editing a romance thriller and started pre-prod on the next Doctors in Dialogue podcast. Have production availability in July/August. DM me!

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Brother in law brought me to Goose on Friday night. Never really heard them before. They’re Yacht Rock meets a Jam Band. I get the appeal. Great vocals and talented dudes, but they won't be on repeat for me. Their lighting and visual setup was pretty incredible, though.

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AND a fucking duet with Robert Smith. While I'm not sure it totally works since his voice is so unique… it’s super awesome of her to platform her for the kids PSA kids.... listen to the Smiths

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Enjoying the new Olivia Rodrigo record. She continues to impress me. Obviously a great voice. But I love how eclectic her music is.

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My fuller review and thoughts on the book over on Goodreads www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Just finished The Capital Order by Clara Mattei and realized Trump isn’t a real fascist. Mainly because he doesn’t have the discipline for austerity, balancing a budget, or paying off debt.

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In 1953, Big Tobacco built a PR shield that permanently warped American media. Memos reveal how they bought journalists, reviewed drafts, and weaponized 600k reprints to delay the truth for decades. Check out my latest article on Medium medium.com/actuallythou...

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How Big Tobacco Bought the Silence of the American Press

Secret memos reveal how the tobacco industry paid journalists, buried health reports, and turned American magazines into a PR machine — and…

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Check out the latest episode of Doctors in Dialogue, the series I’m producing where psychiatrists talk to each other. This episode features a great conversation on addiction and what it means to be "cured." open.substack.com/pub/doctorsi...

What Psychiatry Gets Wrong About Addiction

Dr. Greg Bunt and Dr. Vicente Liz discuss recovery, harm reduction, addiction as a disease, and the questions that continue to shape modern treatment

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Having worked with Claude and Gemini to help with my italian homework, I will go on a limb and say Gemini is the best LLM out there now. That's the only benchmark that matters.

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“Playing one note is much more punk than playing three chords,” Miller suggested

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You shouldn’t have to learn three chords and I just thought, apart from my love of electronic music, I actually thought it was the next step on and I wanted to make a record that reflected that.”

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Punk rock was very much still rooted in the past. I mean, I loved a lot of it but it was R&B really, and I thought that to really take that idea of accessibility and DIY forward there had to be another way...

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Editing the audiobook on the history of punk. This quote from Daniel Miller of The Normal really nails how I have always felt about electronic music since my days of going to raves in the 90s - “I thought that [electronic music] was much more punk rock than punk rock was...

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A LinkedIn comment spat turned into an article about how “progress” often means bulldozing communities. AI companies could actually help instead of just building data centers, raising unemployment, and offering 50% off your first three months open.substack.com/pub/wesleyed...

AI Is Building a New Highway Through Our Communities

A response to the Spotify/UMG AI deal, the economics of creative labor, and the communities bearing the costs

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Spotify makes #AI narration frictionless. Google scrapes narrator voices without consent. YouTube hosts pirated AI #audiobooks at scale. And somehow the platforms are surprised when this gets messy. open.substack.com/pub/theaudio...

I Took Two Weeks Off and the Audiobook Industry Got Worse

Spotify, Google, YouTube, and the slow normalization of synthetic voices

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Audible heard Spotify's footsteps. So they built a bookstore with no books in it. Soulless discoverability is Spotify's lane. Audible is trying to own something different. open.substack.com/pub/theaudio... 💙📚 #Audiobooks 📚🎧 #news