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Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meet
Sometimes two people will stand next to each other for fifteen years, both feeling out of place and alone, like no one gets them, and then one day, they…
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Looking for Alice
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Jan 17, 2023
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Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
The context is smarter than you.
Aug 5, 2024
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Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog
Jan 29, 2025
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Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
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Looking for Alice
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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
Jul 26, 2023
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A list of books and essays that I love
Nov 4, 2025
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Relationships are coevolutionary loops
Oct 31, 2023
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Getting a better sense for when you’re thinking well and when you’re faking it
Notebook. On mental proprioception
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On the compulsion to make art
The work was what connected him to himself.
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Things that connect us to ourselves, and things that don't
Notebook + recommendations
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On political power
Reflections on Robert Caro’s LBJ biography
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On the preparations before writing an essay
Shooting raw footage
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Being creative requires taking risks
When children learn to draw, they tend to make more and more interesting images for several years until around age five, when they learn to be boring.
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Reflections on my first year writing full time
The best essays Johanna and I wrote in 2025, and some reflections on what it was like to write them.
Dec 11, 2025
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Just and loving seeing
Notes on Iris Murdoch
Dec 2, 2025
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The paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, I change
Looking for Alice, part 4
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