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Good News Update and Bonus Article

Pre-TLDR: This is an update article on my personal life/employment, mostly just me making sure people know I’m fine now and that I’m happy. My last job…

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Everything Everywhere All At Once, Abuse, and Duty

I can write reviews as late as I want; I'm an adult.

Apr 27 •

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New post "On Boxer's Confidence" up at Wonderlandrules

Hi, everyone! I have a guest post up at Jay Rollin’s wonderland rules here. Enjoy!

Apr 2 •

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He who submits a resume has already lost

It’s been a while since I’ve looked for a job; for a while, I was on the other side of the process and had the opportunity to examine it from the…

Apr 1 •

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Plugpost and Updates

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On The Experience of Being Poor-ish, For People Who Aren't

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On Incels, Dead Bedrooms and The Hard Problems of Loneliness

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On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class

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On Malignant Escapism

There’s this genre of writing called isekai, which I think roughly translates to “other world”. In isekai novels, the main character is whisked away…

Mar 28 •

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On Being An Unreliable Source of Information For Yourself

The other day, Silicon Valley Bank ran into some problems of the bank-run sort; Peter Thiel told all of the people who listen to him about things to…

Mar 13 •

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Bubble Explainer Article: Housefire Beliefs

The most troublesome arguments to try to make are those that are both very specific and limited (and are by nature of that more or less…

Mar 7 •

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Hidden Article: Writing Advice #1

Hidden Articles are not sent out as newsletters. They are usually “different” in some way - either they aren’t big enough topics to sustain an entire…

Feb 8 •

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A Limited Interest Article on Employer Value Prop and Hiring

Fair warning: I'm pretty sure this stuff is boring to most people

Feb 7 •

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New Writer/New Stuff Plugpost and Open Discussion

Open Discussion It’s hard to do off-topic comments in articles that are specifically about something. If you want to ask me something or talk about…

Jan 31 •

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