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Like pet cats, there are some articles you choose, while others choose you. This is one of the examples of an article that was foisted on me, specifically by Editor-Nick, who thought it was that Emily Oster’s Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty was the kind of thing I’d usually talk…
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Author’s note: I do not really write fiction. With the exception of a few video scripts I wrote years ago, I haven’t really written any fiction at all. I don’t know if that makes this story bad, but I also don’t know if it will end up good. I wanted to do something different over…
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The other day Scott Alexander wrote a piece focusing on a few of the various jhana states of meditation. This falls pretty firmly into the category of “stuff I don’t know much about”, but he linked to an explainer of the general states here: As you reach each jhanic level, your…
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Because every once in a while I remember I'm supposed to do these
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Note: This is a shorter article about being stressed out. It might stress you out; if you don’t want that, you might avoid it. I haven’t written in a…
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I have been described, in a negative way, as particularly “mercenary” compared to other writers. By this, the person meant that more of how I think…
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(Author’s note: I have about fifty different friends who would all like this article to go in slightly different directions. They aren’t by any means…
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I don’t normally care that much about the titles of my articles, to the point where this is one of the leading complaints about my work. “How dare he…
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I guess I spent a week making something weird again
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(BIG IMPORTANT NOTE: This post is related to another post introducing a game, and the game itself. If you haven’t seen either, it will make no sense to…
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I definitely forgot the book club yesterday. I’m very sorry. This week’s discussion revolves around Book 1 of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. I’ll be…
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