Parasocial Friends
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How to save your friends
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Give your friends a chance to abandon you
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Real Life
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You can't will yourself into okayness
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Notes on the nature of thought
I remember when I was having dinner with a friend earlier this year and I was trying to express what my research interests were, and what I said is that I want to understand thought. what even is thought? what is it exactly? and perhaps from there we could also explore what “reason” and “knowledge” are. now I’m less convinced that understanding thought itself is particularly fruitful. at least, the question as it’s framed is too broad....
Tastes of Magic
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Writing exercises
Usually when I sit down to write, I have an essay idea in mind, and I’m trying to write it from start to finish. There are other ways to spend your writing time that can both make the process more enjoyable and improve your output. 1. rewriting great writing Henrik Karlsson describes this in a comment: The one deliberate practice thing that I have found valuable is rewriting great writing from memory and compare it to the original - that helps you notice what good writers do that you don’t....
Push and pull, or, the art of good listening
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How to make a lot of friends
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