Friday 15 February 2019
Overthinking
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I spend a huge amount of time thinking about what's happening to me. We're talking multiple hours a day, daily, dedicated to nothin...
Monday 1 October 2018
Procrastination Post
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It occurs to me that people are wrong when they scoff at our fear of failing and recommend we "just" stop caring what others thi...
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Water All The Way Up
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Here's how I reason about pain in moments of disappointment. I was meant to go to Australia. I'd been looking forward to this tri...
Thursday 10 May 2018
Quo Vadis
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In Two Concepts of Liberty (1958), Isaiah Berlin makes a helpful distinction between technical and political matters. "Where ends a...
Thursday 3 May 2018
The Culture of You
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A few months ago a friend was breaking up with his girlfriend. The saddest thing about breaking up, he said, is having to take apart this w...
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Ego Goals
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Having the right sort of motivation is like the feather that broke the camel's back: the weightless difference between two very differe...
Monday 30 April 2018
Thoughts of Departure
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Senility must feel like a pretty bad trip. I sometimes wonder what it might be like. A complete lack of coherence in the Story that you inh...
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