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"If I love you, it's because in some way we are the same type of bastard"
One season of journal entries
Aug 13 • 
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May 2025

Update to meditation grief essay: 2 months later
Most of the effects have remained, and I'm having a great time
May 12 • 
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March 2025

The grief of losing your sense of self is like getting to Heaven and being upset they don't have your favorite flavor of La Croix
The old me has died and I miss her, but not that much
Mar 21 • 
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Competence is clarity
How do you know if you're good at something?
Mar 10 • 
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January 2025

Some reflections on journaling by hand every day for 8.5 years (and counting)
and on writing in general
Jan 30 • 
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December 2024

Mind viruses and demons are real
You're more programmable than you think
Dec 31, 2024 • 
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Find the fulcrum
A practice of understanding
Dec 15, 2024 • 
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Sincerity and manipulation
Dancing in the dark
Dec 3, 2024 • 
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November 2024

Collecting open secrets
What you call fate is quite ordinary
Nov 18, 2024 • 
Carmen
114
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Nutrient Levels in Retail Grocery Stores, or Why You Should Be Buying Your Groceries from Walmart
A counterintuitive conclusion
Nov 4, 2024 • 
Carmen
71
14

August 2024

People who demand nothing of you (or, notes on charismatic people)
How charisma feels
Aug 1, 2024 • 
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July 2022

limerence with ideas
Youthful obsessions and searching for wholeness
Jul 25, 2022 • 
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