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Childhoods of exceptional people
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Dostoevsky as lover
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First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us
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A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
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When I have a slower publishing cadence my blog grows faster
When I started writing online, the advice I got was to publish frequently and not overthink any single piece. The logic was this: the outcome for blog…
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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas
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Johanna Wiberg
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Squinting at the labyrinth from afar
Some notes on the spring of 2023
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Two kinds of introspection
Nick Cave, the cosmetics of identity, and introspection through doing.
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The shapes of our stories limit what can be said
Couples who have had secure attachment going for a decade plus radiate such a beautiful reality enhancement field, you feel like family just being in…
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Podcasts, parasocial relationships, and the birth of the Enlightenment
I have an essay in WIRED today speculating about the consequences of the rise of intellectual interview podcasts. When we listen to podcasts we form…
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Language models as community moderators
In self-selected communities with clear norms, AI models can automate some of the work that community moderators do. This could allow us to grow…
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How I wrote "Looking for Alice"
Writer's Diary
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Building new cultures
In 1555, six hundred men, mainly French Huguenots and Swiss Calvinists fleeing their Catholic persecutors, set out to found a new society off the coast…
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