0755 – learning music, learning everything (pt 1)

I was noodling around on my guitar earlier and I found myself thinking about my personal learning journey as a musician. I don

adulthood threadpost

0093 – transitioning to adulthood, maladjustment I was doing some reading (blog.asmartbear.com today) But then a swarm of sc

addiction threadpost

Putting together this threadpost, I find myself thinking that my thoughts about addiction circle around video games, social me

sleep threadpost

0008 – waking up early gives you more options I slept early last night, and it was a great decision to have made. Well, earl

‘review your stuff’ threadpost

Okay so this is going to be a new kind of vomit, inspired by my twitter threads. I’m basically going to pick a tag, and

0754 – how ask good questions? (pt 1)

(the following vomit is likely going to be extremely sketchy and incoherent) How do you ask good questions? I think the fun ge

0753 – beware the tyranny of coherence

It’s 253am on November 22nd 2018. I was having trouble sleeping and so I got out of bed. Usually when I get out of bed becau

0751 + 0752 – introspect: navigating authentic wants vs manufactured wants

(this is an unedited rant, written as raw material to be subsequently edited into the book. The book will not be this rambly)

0750 – accelerating the final quarter [75% complete!]

It’s 323am on Friday, 9th November 2018 and I’m writing word vomit number 0750. When I’m done with this, I w

0748 + 0749 – pursue interestingness

prompt: “How people maintain thought, like holding it in their head, writing it down, tweeting, storytelling. How to opt

0747 – how I make new friends on the internet

prompt: “what’s one thing / field / etc you know irrationally too much about? how did you come to that field? what

0746 – explore the spaces in between

prompt: how to explore without doing what everyone else is (the original prompt was about “overtourism”, but IR

0745 – encourage weirdos, discourage assholes

OK for starters, I’ve put together a thread of tweets that I’ve tweeted about weirdness, and I think they provide

0744 – we stress to communicate that we’re serious

prompt: why do people stress so much I love this question! I remember I once watched this video on SikhNet by this guy called

0743 – seeing through the mundane

Prompt: “the mundane” The word “mundane” has French and Latin origins – “mondain”, meaning “of this earth

0742 – navigating unhappiness

Prompt: “unhappiness” I’ve long been interested in the relationships between the words we have for feelings,

0741 – “living intentionally vs living in the stream of continuous reactions to outside inputs”

Here’s an interesting and personal prompt: “Would love your thoughts on living intentionally vs living in the stre

0740 – framing one’s life as a set of projects

I did some tweets about project management and I got a request to say more words about it. It’s interesting for me to co

0739 – how to live in a manufactured reality

Prompt: “Whether or not the fact that everything we do might be within a manufactured reality changes how we should live

0738 – playfulness as a discipline/practice

I’ve started asking people for prompts for these vomits. The first one I got that I liked was “write about playful

0737 – start interfacing with others

It’s November the 1st, 2018. I’ve been in a feral free agent state for four months now. What do I have to show for

0736 – reconsidering the trauma narrative

I’ve been thinking about something Aella said about the trauma narrative. Actually she said a lot of thoughtful, interes