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Perhaps intuitions are always legible in principle, and sometimes temporarily inaccessible. — But, why don't we always immediately know the reasons for why we're feeling as we are?
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By providing others with plausible deniability, we can give them the space and safety to change their mind in our presence, if they wish.
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Several new beliefs that I've acquired recently, rapid-fire. Not polished. // we make ourselves dumber on purpose // there is no bedrock // You can't see motivations in others that you are willfully blind to in yourself // journaling for introspection is bad, actually
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"well, everything you've said so far doesn't make sense, so you must not have any valid reasons at all!" — And how I think it's harmful to use Double Crux with intuitive and emotional issues.
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If you maintain a blog or substack, consider that you can delete posts that no longer feel resonant to you. I say this as two friends of mine have…
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Earlier this year a friend of mine had a conflict with her partner in which she felt that she couldn’t fully share with him how she was feeling on all…
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Something that took me a long time to understand about meditation is that it's not instrumental. What I mean by this is that if I decide to spend time…
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There are at least two kinds of games: finite and infinite. Finite games are those instrumental activities - from sports to politics to wars - in which…
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I feel like I finally understand the trope of the cryptic Zen master: The obscurity is intentional! And frankly also— unfortunately, wonderfully— this…
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