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November 2024

“How do parts form a whole?”
The question on my mind for the past 2y.
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Locally optimal psychology
There’s no way that chronic depression, self-loathing, poor agency, or muscle tension could be optimal… right?
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How do you run an event where strangers feel safe sharing their most cancellable beliefs?
Plausible deniability!
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What if muscle tension is sometimes signal jamming?
Why do we often experience feelings as in the body? For example, why do I feel anxiety in my chest rather than just “knowing” I'm anxious?
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October 2024

Blog posts can be living creatures + reflections on writing
I don’t make this obvious, but most of my blog posts are actually living creatures. They get improved constantly:
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What is autonomy? Why boundaries are necessary.
Here I define autonomy as not having your insides controlled by your outsides.
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Learning to do *real* empathy
I lay there, eyes closed, trying to recall a time when I really felt. The question that had been nagging at me for months hung in the air: “What bad…
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Why I focus on helping key figures in AI
Status: It’s complicated, no longer directly endorsed.
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Feeling part of a greater whole
Have you ever felt deeply connected to the world around you? Like your effortless existence makes a positive difference?
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What is it like to be psychologically healthy? Podcast ft. Damon Sasi
Damon Sasi is a mentor of mine, and he is also a therapist who claims to be very psychologically healthy.
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