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In Deficit, I discussed one of the ways that I’m neurodivergent, one of the ways that it’s like to be me rather than a “normal” person. But another…
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Satisfiction
Most of my friends would agree that I’m a satisficer rather than a maximizer. I’m generally happy with “good enough” and don’t have the drive to get, or…
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Authenticity
I had a conversation with the Degenerate last night about authenticity. He was pitching some ideas for future posts – I think he thinks this is a joint…
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Sinking
The Taxonomist asked me to fill in for him today — presumably to deal with some sort of taxonomic emergency. Said he wanted me to “entertain and educate…
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We Contain Multitudes
One of my heretical beliefs is that the integrated self is a fiction. By a fiction, I mean that the self, that unified thing that you think you are, is…
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Memory Degenerates
Our memories are a strange thing. On one hand, they are unreliable: an error prone, biased, compressed representation of what actually happened. On the…
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Check In
We are almost two weeks into this little experiment, just having passed 1,000 views, and I’ve already learned a few things: This blog is a massive time…
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