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Zen and the art of speedrunning enlightenment
A personal story & a sort of a Techno-Buddhist manifesto
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Writing Hack: Write It Just Like That
A Dovlatov-Chapin writing hack
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How I Lost My Backpack with Passports and Laptop
A tale about mixing GABAergics, neuroticism, responsibility and Heidegger
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“A trackless path”: a book review you shouldn’t be reading
Awareness is right there in front of you
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Shitposting is a blessed epistemic mode. Or how I started caring about shrimp welfare
Shrimp welfare matters
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Determining the golden ratio of ketamine stereoisomers
What if you created ketamine with ‘Adderall’ 3:1 proportion of stereoisomers?
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Prosocial mischief: gently fucking with social scripts via improv
Channeling your inner trickster energy in a benign pattern interrupt
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Ganymede: a reliable "synthetic mood" that no longer works
A story of bottled qualia
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Poetry and Math. On finding meaning in fixed frameworks
Writing this half a year ago was cathartic and re-reading this is like downing 3 red bulls in a row. Perhaps you, my dear reader, would enjoy it too?
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The mind is a shape rotation engine not a wordcel takes generator: how therapy and affirmations work
This post is intended to be taken as an extended koan. Aim to see something in the underlying phenomenology of your mind instead of engaging high-level…
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Pain, suffering and chronic pain
How I got rid of my chronic pain
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Self-love is scary
Today I managed to cast a fireball of self-love inside of my chest.
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