What was the workshop like? Well there was really amazing carpet. I don’t know how relevant this is, but a lot of people…
Sometimes I enjoy understanding better what it is like to be other people. You can do this somewhat subtly by talking to people for ages about other topics, and making inferences. Lately I’ve been asking more directly, something like, ‘what about your experience do you think…
Paul Graham says that cities send subtle messages about what your ambitions should be — different ones tell you to be richer, or be smarter, or to live better. I have lately been feeling like the same is true of people, and groups of people, and TV shows, and songs, and workplaces, and Twitter, and…
I went to a party. Arriving guests got stickers: cats and pineapples. Pineapples would have to talk in a big group, cats would be pairs and trios. Everyone knew the cats had it better.
I spend time in different mental states, but it is surprisingly hard to say how they are different from one another. For instance, I just got back from a friend’s birthday dinner, which involved more wine consumption than my typical few hours of life, and I…
Today I swore a lot. Part of this was due to my recent purchase of a tiny, cheap laptop PC to temporarily replace my apparently extremely taken for granted expensive MacBook. Part of it was due to the large amount of cycling up steep hills involved in this purchase. And part of it…
I kept trying to meditate, but my attention would wander rapidly, and be hard to decisively reassemble. So not much surprising had happened since that one early time, except perhaps the persistence of my interest in meditating. So eventually I tried meditating for only one minute at a…
I have mixed feelings about wonder. I kind of maybe really want it, and it also seems maybe kind of boring.
Part of me thinks, ‘wonder is just a kind of feeling you can have about certain things’, which seems disappointing — like, I want there to be something grander and more…
Every morning I do my morning routine. Some evenings I change what is in my morning routine. Recently I added ‘do something you have never done before’, which I had done before, but not in a while.
I made this blog to write about mundane things like geographic areas I have personally been located in. It was probably a bit tongue in cheek, because my own engagement with whatever geographic location I am in frequently fails to reach the level where I could tell you…
