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It’s Wednesday!

You guys, I am experimenting.

Desk Notes started as a place to think out loud, and lately, I’ve figured I would take that literally by recording myself in the moment. When something is rattling around in my head, and I need to get it out before I lose it or, worse, before it gets buried under the news cycle.

The result is Desk Notes in au…