How to Exist(raptitude.com)
352 points by walterbell | 209 comments
A Raptitude blog post by David Cain titled "How to Exist," a personal essay on living and being present.
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Do quests, not goals(raptitude.com)
551 points by zdw | 154 comments
A Raptitude blog post by David Cain arguing for framing personal ambitions as open-ended quests rather than fixed goals.
Nobody knows what's going on(raptitude.com)
161 points by herbertl | 148 comments
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Maybe you’re not trying(usefulfictions.substack.com)
338 points by eatitraw | 145 comments
Cate Hall's Useful Fictions essay "Maybe you're not Actually Trying," on selective agency in capable people.
Write to Escape Your Default Setting(kupajo.com)
370 points by kolyder | 85 comments
A personal blog essay on kupajo arguing that writing gives structure to thinking and helps escape distraction and default mental patterns.
The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines(thebeliever.net)
265 points by gaplong | 247 comments
A Believer magazine essay about the difficulty of tapering off and withdrawing from benzodiazepine medications.
My website is ugly because I made it(goodinternetmagazine.com)
508 points by surprisetalk | 123 comments
Good Internet magazine essay in its Webweaving section arguing for personal, self-made websites even if they look ugly, by the creator of taylor.town.
Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft(writings.hongminhee.org)
541 points by dahlia | 539 comments
Blog essay arguing that AI-assisted clean-room reimplementation, as with chardet 7.0 relicensed from LGPL to MIT, may be legal but erodes the legitimacy of copyleft.
Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)(blog.danslimmon.com)
533 points by tehnub | 137 comments
Blog post by Dan Slimmon describing "do-nothing scripts" that encode manual procedures step by step as a path toward gradual automation.