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There will be good things ahead

2019-01-04

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Now that the darkest part of the year has passed, I’m hopeful we’ll see something like what my Uncle Robert described in an email to me last year: It seems sometimes like things plod along, yielding neither joy nor sorrow; and then suddenly an unexpected series of events, meetings, or conversations; a surge of energy […]

Gratitude

2018-09-26

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I feel like I’m free, that I’m doing useful work, and that I’m living life as I want to.

saganangst — fear of nuclear war, and particularly nuclear winter

2018-09-21

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We live under constant threat of sudden destruction via nuclear war. It wouldn’t take that many warheads falling on major cities to darken the atmosphere — making the consequences of even a regional exchange (or the payload of a single ‘boomer’ sub) global, and potentially a threat to the integrity of human civilization. The control […]

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2018-02-19

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there are non-overlapping gaps in all our memories which leave us confused in our social relations with one another

2018-02-10

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Helplessly watching someone you love suffer can teach and change you more than years of academic study, expert help, and suffering of your own.

2018-01-27

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“Just one more” is the binding factor in the cycle of suffering.

2018-01-19

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if the conditions are right, the brain can create new circuits at any stage of development