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# #life-is-literature

- <https://howtounclench.com> — How to Unclench

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["somatics","stress"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.avabear.xyz/p/normalcy> — normalcy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["relationships","belonging"]
    - later: true

- <https://ansonyu.me/tupperware> — To Contain a Brain

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["self-reflection","well-being"]
    - later: true

- <https://qchu.substack.com/p/goonworld> — GOON WORLD

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["fiction","experience machine"]
    - later: true

- <https://notebook.neelr.dev/stories/getting-older-college-and-dreams> — getting older, college, and dreams

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["life is literature"]
    - later: true

- <https://paulgraham.com/love.html> — How to Do What You Love

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["life is literature"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.howtofixyour.life> — How to fix your entire life in 1 day

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["life is literature"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/hacker-mindset> — How to walk through walls

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["life is literature"]
    - later: true

- <https://isabelfall.neocities.org/Isabel_Fall_-_I_Sexually_Identify_as_an_Attack_Helicopter.pdf> — I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["life is literature","fiction"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/dying-with-whimsy![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3uRGPDrucg9RLLcp5/dying-with-whimsy) — Dying with Whimsy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["life is literature"]
    - later: true

- <https://ponnekanti.net/psychokinetics> — Psychokinetics

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["motivation","psychology"]
    - later: true

- <https://musings.suryamidha.com/san-francisco> — san francisco

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["san francisco","personal"]
    - later: true

- <https://livingalonealone.com/p/the-mountain-in-topanga> — the mountain in Topanga

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["nature","personal"]
    - later: true

- <https://jacobgw.com/blog/hiking/2026/08/08/trt-thru-hike.html> — Tahoe Rim Trail thru-hike: a trail journal

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["hiking","journal"]
    - later: true

- <https://jackieluo.com/bookshelf/formative-works> — Formative works

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["books","reading"]
    - later: true

- <https://victoriahebbert.substack.com/p/motherhood-is-not-the-end-of-an-intellectual> — Motherhood is not the end of an intellectual life

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["motherhood","intellectual life"]
    - later: true

- <https://mnqrls.substack.com/p/keeping-your-options-open-is-ruining> — Keeping Your Options Open is Ruining Your Life

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["options","decisions"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-colors-of-her-coat> — The Colors Of Her Coat

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["fiction","literature"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.startingfromnix.com/p/if-experience-is-the-goal-then-you> — if experience is the goal, then you always win

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/26/2026
    - tags: \["experience","reinvention"]
    - later: true

- <https://gracebyron.substack.com/p/i-wanted-to-become-a-novice> — I wanted to become a novice

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/26/2026
    - tags: \["novice","journal"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/travel-by-foot> — The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/26/2026
    - tags: \["travel","walking"]
    - later: true

- <https://hormeze.substack.com/p/and-now-she-turns-again> — And Now She Turns Again

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/26/2026
    - tags: \["soul","writing"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.sherryning.com/p/till-death> — Till Death

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/26/2026
    - tags: \["love","time"]
    - later: true

- <https://kokiriforest.substack.com/p/my-first-boyfriend> — My first boyfriend

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/26/2026
    - tags: \["relationships","memoir"]
    - later: true

- <https://substack.com/inbox/post/209670682> — no two things the same

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["writing","identity"]
    - later: true

- <https://thoughtcoded.substack.com/p/give-your-mom-some-grace> — Give your mom some grace

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["family","grace"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.clubreticent.com/p/meet-me-at-the-intersection-of-tech> — Meet me at the intersection of tech and womanhood

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["tech","womanhood"]
    - later: true

- <https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/> — In memory of my wife Elise Cawley

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["grief","remembrance"]
    - later: true

- <https://news.spencer.place/p/making-the-internet-a-living-game> — making the internet a living game

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["internet","play"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/> — Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["tech","sadness"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.clubreticent.com/p/tech-is-dying-to-be-a-girls-girl> — Tech is dying to be a girl’s girl

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["tech","womanhood"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.jenn.site/rich-friend-poor-friend/> — Rich Friend, Poor Friend

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["friendship","class"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.hardtowrite.com/against-maximum-stimulation-egg-freezing-ivf-and-the-case-for-gentler-fertility-medicine/> — Against Maximum Stimulation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["fertility","medicine"]
    - later: true

- <https://zephyyr.substack.com/p/a-moveable-feast> — A moveable feast

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["writing","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://maxlangenkamp.substack.com/p/i-am-blessed-by-you> — I am blessed by you

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["gratitude","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://bonsaigarden.substack.com/p/intimacy-is-both-taking-and-being> — intimacy is both taking and being taken for granted

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/06/2026
    - tags: \["intimacy","relationships"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.avabear.xyz/p/safe-and-alive> — safe and alive

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/06/2026
    - tags: \["safety","aliveness"]
    - later: true

- <https://the6thspence.substack.com/p/north-americans-have-depressing-relationships> — North Americans have depressing relationships

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/06/2026
    - tags: \["relationships","culture"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.nanransohoff.com/Relationship-primitives-146f658571ff8100a7a7ec231fde64e6> — Relationship primitives

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["relationships","social software"]
    - later: true

- <https://nabeelqu.co/principles> — Principles

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["principles","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.sherryning.com/p/diary-of-a-people-watcher-3> — Diary of a people watcher, 3

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["diary","observation"]
    - later: true

- <https://amivora.substack.com/p/seeing-yourself-through-others-eyes> — Seeing Yourself through Others’ Eyes

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["selfhood","relationships"]
    - later: true

- <https://jasminexli.substack.com/p/2026-h2-personal-goals> — my 2026 H2 personal goals

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["goals","planning"]
    - later: true

- <https://mingyuan.substack.com/p/the-need-to-capture-the-moment> — The need to capture the moment

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["memory","attention"]
    - later: true

- <https://gracebyron.substack.com/p/just-notice-that> — Just Notice That

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["attention","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://minutes.substack.com/p/post-scarcity-is-the-beast-of-revelation> — Post-Scarcity Is the Beast Of Revelation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["religion","post-scarcity"]
    - later: true

- <https://paulinewee.substack.com/p/first-person-singular> — first person singular

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["identity","writing"]
    - later: true

- <https://amivora.substack.com/p/becoming-my-own-burnout-spotter> — Becoming my own “burnout spotter”

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/28/2026
    - tags: \["burnout","selfhood"]
    - later: true

- <https://joshuamuthu.substack.com/p/notes-on-replacing-guilt> — Notes on Replacing Guilt

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/28/2026
    - tags: \["guilt","values"]
    - later: true

- <https://nailujmay.substack.com/p/goodbye-bay> — Goodbye Bay

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/06/2026
    - tags: \["bay area","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://cybermonk.substack.com/p/notes-on-unconditional-love> — Notes on unconditional love

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/01/2026
    - tags: \["love","unconditional"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.booritney.com/p/the-care-and-keeping-of-luke> — the care and keeping of luke

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/01/2026
    - tags: \["love","devotion"]
    - later: true

- <https://divyavenn.substack.com/p/happiness-from-the-inside-out> — happiness from the inside out

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/01/2026
    - tags: \["happiness","selfhood"]
    - later: true

- <https://hinterlander.substack.com/p/the-constant-conversation> — The Constant Conversation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/01/2026
    - tags: \["consciousness","intimacy"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.clubreticent.com/p/ais-got-nothing-on-a-womans-loneliness> — AI’s got nothing on a woman’s loneliness

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["loneliness","ai"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.clubreticent.com/p/hungry-for-it> — Hungry for it

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["desire","love"]
    - later: true

- <https://read.isabelunraveled.com/p/head> — get out of your head

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["body","self"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.theplayerstribune.com/elina-svitolina-gael-monfils-tennis> — Your Dad, the Magician

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["tennis","family"]
    - later: true

- <https://archive.ph/1gPi7> — After My Son Died Climbing, I Wrestle With ‘What If’

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["grief","climbing"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/nabeelqu/status/1981003753525502035> — avoiding human learning-rate collapse

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/22/2025
    - tags: \["learning","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/mylenesmind/status/2008339651824660871> — one essay per month for 2026

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/06/2026
    - tags: \["writing","essays"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/phokarlsson/status/2008489862853226935> — execute on your inkling for three months

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/06/2026
    - tags: \["agency","advice"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/phokarlsson/status/2008490118835998794> — see brutality and keep your heart soft

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/06/2026
    - tags: \["life","beauty"]
    - later: true

- <https://carinas.substack.com/p/we-exist-in-the-absence> — We exist in the absence

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["breakups","space"]
    - later: true

- <https://angelcake.substack.com/p/is-there-a-correct-way-to-capture> — is there a correct way to capture your life?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["memory","documentation"]
    - later: true

- <https://museguided.substack.com/p/erotic-decisions> — Erotic Decisions

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["desire","becoming"]
    - later: true

- <https://mingyuan.substack.com/p/its-time-to-move-on> — It’s time to move on

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["grief","processing"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.startingfromnix.com/p/we-think-better-when-our-minds-are> — We think better when our minds are entwined

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["partnership","creativity"]
    - later: true

- <https://marlenejo.substack.com/p/yearnslop-is-the-perversion-of-everything> — Yearnslop is the perversion of everything good about Love

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["love","yearning"]
    - later: true

- <https://jennyclark.substack.com/p/the-story-of-how-we-met> — the story of how we met

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["love","relationship"]
    - later: true

- <https://samkriss.substack.com/p/how-to-live-without-your-phone> — How to live without your phone

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["attention","phone"]
    - later: true

- <https://benxwang.substack.com/p/a-reflection-on-tennis> — a reflection on tennis

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["tennis","practice"]
    - later: true

- <https://thebagatelles.substack.com/p/the-wind-chime-chronicles> — The Wind Chime Chronicles

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["fiction","environment"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/going-your-own-way> — Some relationships deepen when you tell the truth and some end

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["relationship","truth"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.sherryning.com/p/youre-overspending-because-you-lack-values> — You’re overspending because you lack values

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["values","desire"]
    - later: true

- <https://altered.substack.com/p/resentment> — Resentment is needing others to change so you can stay the same

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["resentment","change"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/two-kinds-of-introspection> — Two kinds of introspection

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["introspection","identity"]
    - later: true

- <https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/the-life-goals-of-dead-people> — The Life Goals of Dead People

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["guilt","values"]
    - later: true

- <https://mingyuan.substack.com/p/physical-competence> — Physical competence

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["body","competence"]
    - later: true

- <https://v4913.substack.com/p/sophomore-year-recap-life-update> — Sophomore year recap / life update

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["college","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://altered.substack.com/p/insecurity> — To have an insecurity is to pretend not to have it

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["insecurity","selfhood"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/love-and-change> — Love is about being invested in someone’s continual expansion

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["love","change"]
    - later: true

- <https://mindslice.substack.com/p/no-skill-issues-only-love-issues> — no SKILL ISSUES, only LOVE ISSUES

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["love","creativity"]
    - later: true

- <https://aella.substack.com/p/the-difficulty-in-dating-good-men> — The Difficulty In Dating Good Men

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["dating","gender"]
    - later: true

- <https://caitlynrichardson.substack.com/p/congrats-on-the-autism> — congrats on the autism

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["autism","selfhood"]
    - later: true

- <https://lydianottingham.substack.com/p/day-15-things-i-learned-on-connectedness> — Day 15: Things I learned on Connectedness Day

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["connectedness","language"]
    - later: true

- <https://tishweinstock.substack.com/p/rayne-fisher-quann-i-have-very-bad> — Rayne Fisher-Quann: I have very bad dreams nearly every night

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["interview","anxiety"]
    - later: true

- <https://anson.substack.com/p/recognizing-sparkly-people-without> — sparkly people and how to find them

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["friendship","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://sphericalcowselectricsheep.substack.com/p/value-function-learning> — value function learning

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["values","retrospective"]
    - later: true

- <https://mylenesmind.substack.com/p/i-want-to-make-a-digital-time-capsule> — I want to make a digital time capsule of my 20s

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["memory","twenties"]
    - later: true

- <https://jasminexli.substack.com/p/a-journey-through-the-american-west> — a journey through the american west

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["travel","america"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/doestoevsky-as-lover> — Dostoevsky as lover

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["love","dostoevsky"]
    - later: true

- <https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/burnout-is-breaking-a-sacred-pact> — Burnout is breaking a sacred pact

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["burnout","agency"]
    - later: true

- <https://maalvika.substack.com/p/the-great-dating-overthink> — The Great Dating Overthink

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["dating","body"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/looking-for-alice> — Looking for Alice

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["dating","love"]
    - later: true

- <https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-be-more-agentic> — How to be more agentic

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["agency","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://wellnesswisdom.substack.com/p/40ish-pieces-of-advice-from-2025> — 40(ish) pieces of advice from 2025

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/15/2026
    - tags: \["advice","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://adaptivegood.substack.com/p/memetic-desire> — Mimetic Desire

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/15/2026
    - tags: \["desire","mimesis"]
    - later: true

- <https://ceselder.substack.com/p/the-gradient-descented-normie> — The gradient-descented normie

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/15/2026
    - tags: \["mimetic desire","selfhood"]
    - later: true

- [wikipedia/en/East\_of\_Eden\_(novel)![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_of_Eden_\(novel\)) — East of Eden

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/11/2026
    - tags: \["steinbeck","novel"]
    - later: true

- [wikipedia/en/A\_Farewell\_to\_Arms![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Arms) — A Farewell to Arms

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/11/2026
    - tags: \["hemingway","novel"]
    - later: true

- [wikipedia/en/Niels\_Lyhne![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Lyhne) — Niels Lyhne

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/11/2026
    - tags: \["novel","realism"]
    - later: true

- [wikipedia/en/Elective\_Affinities![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_Affinities) — Elective Affinities

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/10/2026
    - tags: \["goethe","novel"]
    - later: true

- [wikipedia/en/Dilbert![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert) — Dilbert

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/10/2026
    - tags: \["comics","office"]
    - later: true

- [wikipedia/en/The\_Story\_of\_Tấm\_and\_Cám![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_T%E1%BA%A5m_and_C%C3%A1m) — The Story of Tấm and Cám

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/10/2026
    - tags: \["folklore","vietnam"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.derekthompson.org/p/three-reasons-to-be-a-parent> — On being a Dad \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["family","kids"]
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 8

- <https://borretti.me/article/effective-spaced-repetition> — Effective spaced repetition

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/06/2026
    - tags: \["pedagogy"]

- <https://www.sherryning.com/p/to-be-alive-is-to-live-wanting-something> — To be alive is to live wanting something \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/04/2026
    - tags: \["love"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://bird.onethreenine.net/> — apartment bird

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/28/2026
    - tags: \["interesting","bird"]

- <https://archive.fo/20260313093942/https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/tech-boss-uses-ai-and-chatgpt-to-create-cancer-vaccine-for-his-dying-dog/news-story/292a21bcbe93efa17810bfcfcdfadbf7> — Using ChatGPT to create vaccine to save his dying dogs

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/27/2026
    - tags: \["biology","autonomous research"]

- <https://jenseneats.danliu.xyz/> — Jensen Eats

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/25/2026
    - tags: \["restaurant"]

- <https://www.reddit.com/r/RSbookclub/comments/1ebhgyl/do_u_guys_like_sexual_personae/> — Do you like “Sexual Personae”

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/30/2026
    - tags: \["love"]

- [wikipedia/en/Platanus\_occidentalis![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus_occidentalis) — American sycamore

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/29/2026
    - tags: \["tree"]

- <https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/the-vibes-theory-of-organisational-design-937a73f791cd> — The vibes theory of organisational design

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/12/2026
    - tags: \["communal","decision theory"]

- <https://colah.github.io/personal/micromarriages/> — Micromarriages

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/12/2026
    - tags: \["life","love","decision analysis"]

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/on-the-compulsion-to-make-art> — On the compulsion to make art \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/23/2026
    - tags: \["life"]
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 8

- <https://www.sherryning.com/p/youre-not-falling-in-love-because> — You’re not falling in love because you don’t want to

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/23/2026
    - tags: \["love"]
    - importance: 5

- <https://www.sherryning.com/p/youre-bored-because-you-dont-love> — You’re bored because you don’t love anything

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/23/2026
    - tags: \["love"]
    - importance: 5

- <https://sf2g.com/terms.html> — SF2G terms in San Francisco

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/22/2026
    - tags: \["words"]

- <https://futurelovers.com> — Gossip is Good, A Manifesto for Social Intelligence

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - tags: \["os","life"]

- <https://stanfordsteamtunnels.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/stanford-steam-tunnels.pdf> — Stanford Steam Tunnels

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - tags: \["architecture"]

- <https://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Future+of+Humanity+Institute> — Information for Future of Humanity Institute

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - tags: \["longtermism","statistics","prediction market"]

- <https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2020/09/29/another-look-at-tinkering-toward-utopia> — Another look at “Tinkerin Toward Utopia”

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - tags: \["books","behaviour","pedagogy"]
    - later: true

- <https://carinas.substack.com/p/there-is-so-much-love-in-trying> — There is so much love in trying

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["efforts","progress"]

- <https://x.com/voooooogel/status/2004170533689295186> — Claude Opus 4.5’s Christmas card

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/26/2025
    - tags: \["life","machine"]

- <https://x.com/JayaGup10/status/2003525933534179480> — AI’s trillion-dollar opportunity: Context graphs

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["scaling"]

- <https://x.com/BjarturTomas/status/2003277909063270479> — The Company Man

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["fiction","writing"]

- <https://www.huffpost.com/entry/death-parent-dad-secrets_n_63d97715e4b01e92886da131> — I Thought Uncovering My Father’s Deepest Secrets Would Make Us Closer. I Was Wrong.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["eschatology","obituary","grief"]

- <https://splishsplash.online/p/beautiful-places> — Beautiful places

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/18/2025
    - tags: \["landscape","joy"]

- <https://www.experimental-history.com/p/thank-you-for-being-annoying> — Thank you for being annoying \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/09/2025
    - tags: \["life","love"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-wanted-to-be-a-teacher-but-they?r=qx0i> — I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["life","fiction"]

- <https://www.benkuhn.net/impact/> — Impact, agency, and taste \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/18/2025
    - tags: \["agency","progress"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://guzey.com/impact/> — On Impact

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["progress"]

- <https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/the-ends-of-empathy> — The end of empathy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/13/2025
    - tags: \["homelessness","commentary"]
    - later: true

  - rtq’s response to Fealey’s The Invisible Man

  - she did mention about how this complexed feeling wrt to seeing reactions to Fealey’s essay on Reddit would make her struggled for a long time. In a sense, it is an uncomplicated feeling about grief and empathy.

- <https://archive.ph/FqPhn> — The Invisible Man \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/13/2025
    - tags: \["life","homelessness","empathy"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - The officers are civil, but every encounter causes me apprehension and stress. I’m innocent of any wrongdoing, but the interaction between a citizen and law enforcement is unbalanced by nature.

  - They are part of an apparatus that can take away a person’s freedom. I know it, and they certainly know it. When you’re homeless, you are even more vulnerable. You have no place to go, no kitchen table to sit at while you drink your beer, invisible to them. You’re always on their turf. It’s unnerving.

- <https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/machine-yearning> — Machine yearning

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/13/2025
    - tags: \["writing"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.avabear.xyz/p/the-point-of-it-all> — The point of it all \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/11/2025
    - tags: \["love","relationship","pleasure"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.avabear.xyz/p/chapter-2-prioritize-your-favorite> — prioritise your favourite people

  1. The actual act of befriending someone great (which we’ll talk about more in-depth next chapter.)
  2. Continuing to chase and deepen the relationship.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/11/2025
    - tags: \["hedonia","friendship"]

  - > When I want to be transformed, I [chase my reading](https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/chase-your-readinghtml), to use Robin Hanson’s phrase. “Hunting has two main modes: searching and chasing,” Hanson writes. “With searching you look for something to chase. With chasing, in contrast, you have a focus of attention that drives your actions.” Searching is when I’m reading without a clear aim and continue to read even if I’m unsure about what the author is trying to achieve. Chasing is when I have a question I’m pursuing.

  - Though this is the most basic question there is, you’d be surprised by how many people have a total inability to articulate **what they like in people**.

  - That’s totally okay. There’s no need to sit down and make a list. If you’re in your teens or early 20s, the best way to search for people you like is to **meet a lot of people and see which ones you feel particularly alive in the presence of.**

  - If you _have_ met a lot of people, it might be productive to try to find the commonalities between them. **So: take out a piece of paper, and write down the names of everyone in your life, past or present, who you felt extremely alive around.** What do they have in common?

  - To me, there are two parts of the chase:

- <https://www.avabear.xyz/p/how-to-be-happy-in-san-francisco> — How to be Happy in San Francisco

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/30/2025
    - tags: \["life","eudamonia"]

- <https://writetobrain.com/olfactory> — We induced Smells with ultrasound \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/22/2025
    - tags: \["advancement","longtermism"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.sherryning.com/p/what-do-we-deserve-in-love> — What do we deserve in love?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/12/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://read.isabelunraveled.com/p/let-yourself-be-loved> — let yourself be loved \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/11/2025
    - tags: \["love"]
    - highlighted: true

  - Relationship are co-created.

- <https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b3a3c2596e76feeba40905e/t/5b46366570a6add65490e050/1531328102222/1977workingItOut.pdf> — Reflections on “Learning to Work”

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/11/2025
    - tags: \["culture"]

- <https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23> — Better living through algorithms \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/23/2025
    - tags: \["short","literature"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://x.com/carmenleelau/status/1818771532132311200> — People who demand nothing of you

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["life","friend"]

- <https://x.com/NicoleSHsing/status/1876672940353450369> — existence

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["life"]

- <https://x.com/xhfloz/status/1878624648717553753> — The Scream to The Sun arc

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["being","eschatology","art"]

- <https://x.com/ashotmagazine/status/1879964949776330837> — rest-in-peace David Lynch

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["art","life","eschatology"]

- <https://x.com/MelisaSeah/status/1875931461565693997> — Vietnamese being in frontier art and fashion style

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["fashion"]

- <https://x.com/kasratweets/status/1880147402025582924> — Kasra on loneliness, or emotional insecurity

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["anhedonia"]

- <https://x.com/VividVoid_/status/1828461484277461447> — philosophical wisdom

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["meme","philia"]

- <https://x.com/melissa/status/1883821342354768109> — Melissa on fairness within marriage

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["love","relationship"]

- <https://x.com/bimbosattva_/status/1935812993528599012?s=46&t=E_gPjnJKDBGnwpVrE7Z-WQ> — Be autistic and women will love you

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["optimization","dating"]

- <https://x.com/phokarlsson/status/1794384589898805621> — Treat people as if they are too complex to hold it inside your head

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["life","being","relationship","social games"]

- <https://x.com/jacquemusx/status/1942186663557353504> — Iris van Herpen

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["fashion","designer"]

- <https://x.com/thecaravanindia/status/1942869801593958709> — Bertrand Russell releases a manifesto warning about the danger of nuclear weapons

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["eschatology","technology"]

- <https://x.com/michael_nielsen/status/1951055480920613156> — Don’t drop out of college

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["life","school"]

- <https://x.com/gabrielpeterss4/status/1951781057973608948?s=46&t=E_gPjnJKDBGnwpVrE7Z-WQ> — working on your problems

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["work"]

- <https://x.com/aarnphm/status/1956238570353504615> — Seeing N

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["friends"]

- <https://x.com/SchrodingrsBrat/status/1960157702232940796> — September is the true New Year, Sherry

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["being","life"]

- <https://x.com/bolau_/status/1963676094546186539> — performative curius highlighting

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["meme"]

- <https://x.com/virtualjew/status/1846593528350011539> — You can just make grilled cheese with onions

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["food"]

- <https://x.com/qiaochuyuan/status/1629333539488690176?s=46&t=E_gPjnJKDBGnwpVrE7Z-WQ> — QC on attachment theory thread \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["love","life"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://x.com/nwilliams030/status/1884282849471390185> — neighbourhood as a form of proximity love

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["life","society"]

- <https://x.com/booritney/status/1884857291046002714> — dates in sf, after dark thursday

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["life","dating"]

- <https://x.com/tommytrxnh/status/1884908531079340090> — Tommy’s version

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["being","life"]

- <https://x.com/noampomsky/status/1960404829647585590> — Life

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["life","feelings"]

- <https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1973448285164806247> — Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["eschatology"]

- <https://ryolu.notion.site/how-to-make-something-great> — How to make something great, by Ryo Lu

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/09/2025
    - tags: \["ai","design"]

- <https://www.personalcanon.com/p/in-praise-of-writing-on-the-internet> — In praise of writing on the internet

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/09/2025
    - tags: \["writing","love"]

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/being-patient-with-problems> — Being patient with the problems

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/09/2025
    - tags: \["work","pedagogy"]

- <https://chias.blog/2022/there-is-an-internet-that-is-mine/> — There is an internet that is mine

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/09/2025
    - tags: \["web","internet"]

- <https://hannahsarchive.substack.com/p/films-that-have-healed-me> — [Film](/cinematheque) that healed me

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["film"]

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/constraints> — An essay in which my friend feels stuck and I suggest relaxing some constraints

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/09/2025
    - tags: \["life","being"]

- [wikipedia/en/Lovecraftian\_horror![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror) — [Eldritch horror](/thoughts/Eldritch-horror)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/09/2025
    - tags: \["gothic"]

- [wikipedia/en/Rhizome\_(philosophy)![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_\(philosophy\)) — [Rhizome](/thoughts/Rhizome)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/09/2025
    - tags: \["being","growth"]

- <https://aeon.co/essays/simone-de-beauvoirs-authentic-love-is-a-project-of-equals> — Simone de Beavoir’s “Love is a joint project” \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/09/2025
    - tags: \["love","philosophy"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.links.net/dox/tech/computopia.html> — Computopia \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["computing"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.experimental-history.com/p/28-slightly-rude-notes-on-writing> — 28 slightly rude notes on writing \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/28/2025
    - tags: \["writing"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.experimental-history.com/p/face-it-youre-a-crazy-person> — Face it, you are a crazy person \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["life","being"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://altered.substack.com/p/season-of-journals> — “If I love you, it’s because in some way we are the same type of bastard”

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/28/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://velvetnoise.substack.com/p/some-parts-of-you-only-emerge-for> — some parts of you only emerge for certain people \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/28/2025
    - tags: \["love","being"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - I think this discipline, to look with imagined [love](/thoughts/love), can be a form of democratic tenderness.

  - Love asks for heat. Left cold, we harden into our existing shape. But under the steady warmth of attention, we soften, loosen, and take on new form. The right gaze reorganises the self; you begin to recognise yourself more clearly in their eyes, and they in yours. Each becomes more singular by being seen, a longing to inhabit the silhouette cast by someone else’s radical faith.

- <https://velvetnoise.substack.com/p/in-defence-of-yearning> — in defence of yearning \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/23/2025
    - tags: \["life"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.gleech.org/stopping> — What’s Stopping You?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/28/2025
    - tags: \["productivity","agency"]

- <https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/44-agency> — Neel’s What’s Stopping You?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["agency","research"]

- <https://www.sherryning.com/p/goodbye-august> — Goodbye August

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/28/2025
    - tags: \["life"]

- <https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/my-six-stages-of-learning-to-be-a> — My six stages of learning to be a socially normal person

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["learning"]

  - Connecting with people is about being a dazzling person

  - Connecting with people is about playing their game

- <https://x.com/noampomsky/status/1974487754290729215?s=61> — Feeling your feeling but it is just your resistance

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/04/2025
    - tags: \["life","being"]