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i’ve had a funny relationship with repetition over the years i’ve decided to make a blogpost to point at re: repet

I met an old friend for lunch a while ago. He observed that I was initially tense and weary, but that I then visibly relaxed o

you’re unlikely to be less tired tomorrow if your tiredness is actually emotional knottedness, which requires dynamic ac

(original thread) since i was kid i always wondered why things weren’t better. i’ve probably spent thousands of ho

“When we truly feel comfortable, the desire to improve is natural— no antagonism required, no debt incurred.” (d

I am always recommending to people that they ought to journal. Keep a diary, write your memoirs, it doesn’t really preci

Schaffensgeist is a word I just made up, remixing the word zeitgeist (time-ghost) with the german word Schaffen, which means &

I’ve thought from time to time that people don’t do a great job of quoting things. I figure I might as well make m

“social mistake i used to make a lot was, always engaging with everyone the way I wanted to be engaged with, which was to be

This post is a quick sketch / copy-over of some tweets where I use the phrase “people-shaped”, which I think is so

(nov 18, 2021 thread) there are a bunch of things i wish some earnest person would ask me about, tho if i talk about it now it

I think it’s cute how three different words – jinky, janky and junky – all have this venn diagram overlap that I lik

Books I’ve written: The first book that I published is called FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD. The second book that I’m cu

AFTER GIFTED is an ebook that I’m working on to help formerly gifted kids find success and happiness in life. Optimistic

Preamble Originally on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9325637 It’s always interesting to look at old predic