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Healthy Hedonism — How Maximizing Long-Term Pleasure Necessitates Healthy Living

Health and pleasure are often thought of in opposition but in fact these two drives may be more harmonious than they first appear.

Jul 7, 2023

Healthy Hedonism — How Maximizing Long-Term Pleasure Necessitates Healthy Living

Jul 7, 2023

An AI Imagines the First Lines of 14 Novels

Joining the Midjourney beta, I feed the image generating algorithm the first lines of fourteen novels to see what the AI would come up.

Aug 9, 2022

An AI Imagines the First Lines of 14 Novels

Aug 9, 2022

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The Alluring Myth of Passive Income

“Financial gurus” are selling a get-rich-quick scheme for the digital economy.

May 5, 2020

The Alluring Myth of Passive Income

May 5, 2020

Defensive Pessimism and the Bright Side of Negative Thinking

How the COVID-19 crisis has revealed fault lines in excessive positivity.

Mar 26, 2020

Storm clouds, rain, lightning, but then a idea bulb appears.

Mar 26, 2020

How “Invader Zim” Introduced Children to their Impending Doom

Invader Zim was ultimately a children’s show about death, destruction, and other terrible fates.

Aug 16, 2019

How “Invader Zim” Introduced Children to their Impending Doom

Aug 16, 2019

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How to Get in the Habit of Using Habit Trackers

Starting a habit, or breaking an old one, is notoriously difficult. Tracking these goals can be a useful way of keeping yourself committed…

Jul 31, 2019

How to Get in the Habit of Using Habit Trackers

Jul 31, 2019

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The Importance of Hobbies, or ‘Serious Leisure’

Whenever someone asks what I like to do with my free time, the most honest response is something like, “You know, the usual, mostly…

Jun 27, 2019

The Importance of Hobbies, or ‘Serious Leisure’

Jun 27, 2019

Johns Hopkins Researcher on the Potential for Psilocybin Therapy

Johns Hopkins researcher Roland Griffiths has spent nearly twenty years investigating psilocybin and its potential for psychological…

Mar 22, 2019

Johns Hopkins Researcher on the Potential for Psilocybin Therapy

Mar 22, 2019

Reclaim Your Focus by Letting Your Mind Wander

Why being alone with your thoughts is necessary for optimal brain function

Mar 19, 2019

Reclaim Your Focus by Letting Your Mind Wander

Mar 19, 2019

The Last Shot of True Detective, Season Three

It was in many ways a peaceful denouement — the first of the series where the conclusion of the case did not involve a life-or-death…

Feb 26, 2019

The Last Shot of True Detective, Season Three

Feb 26, 2019

K. Albasi

K. Albasi

// writer of random musings, blog posts, short stories, unpublished novels, spec scripts, forgotten notes, and unsent letters // k-albasi.com

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