Exploring How Asia Works and good industrial policy.
can you rationally plan your usefulness?
I feel like I need to get this out before I can move on to more serious topics
When I first started getting spiritual, I watched all these Youtube monk videos telling me 'be the silent witness', 'you are not the doer', 'thou art that', etc etc etc. Intellectually, I got it, but nothing really changed.
In this five paragraph essay, I will argue that the english common core turns kids into "asserters" rather than thinkers, homogonizes writing into bland content marketing, and destroys the inherent joy in reading, especially of the classics.
The World's Greatest Festival
Ayurveda, magical mantras, and how I approach belief and skepticism.
I've tried to narrate an enjoyable overview of the current US-China trade situation in the form of a story, intended for the casuals who don't want to comb through dry academic papers and textbooks.
tips tricks and perspectives for the hermit life
HOW NO FAP AND COLD SHOWERS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!!!
Melting into discomfort, uniting with whatever life gives you.
The limits of scientific proof, defense of energy medicine, internalizing belief as a spectrum.
about the relation between language and feeling, about 90% of writing being revising sounding dreary, and about kerouac vs hemingway
There are an infinite number of signals in the world. We create our reality by paying attention to a subset of these. By picking what signals you pay attention to, by picking your "reality tunnel", you can create the world you want.
The gaze of those you know fixes you in the role you play for them and my friends generally don't expect me to crawl around the floor meowing.
Never asking for help subtly reinforced a sense of separateness from society, narrowing the scope of my love, involvement, and responsibility.
Why I trust traditional medicine.
Baby steps into spirituality.
Dealing with loneliness in college.
Shitting myself over some spiders.
2018-08-31 •
Here are all the posts I've wrote while blogging for UT, loosely categorized.
Why I lost my shit when my friend told me he cleans his toaster.
The first of many aquatic misadventures.
*hints blunt* i feel like there's just, like, no point to anything, you know
My first arduino project.