Designing a self-directed learning network v0.3
enabling infinite rabbit holes of learning: documenting the process and lessons
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everything on this site
crying
Some time along the last few years I had lost my ability to cry. It was a strange phenomenon for me, since I have been a crybaby from my earliest memories. Slowly…
Quitting coffee
my process of quitting coffee and why I quit it
at the beginning
It has been two years since I moved back from San Francisco. Every now and then I am surprised that I don’t really miss the city I had loved so much. I…
Yayoi Kusama, mental illness and embracing weirdness
Is some sort of extreme isolation necessary to connect deeply?
heavy existence
love is the only redemption in the heavy weight of existence
A gift of stories
sometimes we need someone to gift us a story
negative capability
Yesterday I learned a new phrase while reading a book: “negative capability”, which was coined by poet John Yeats in a letter to his friend. This was the author’s interpretation (that was…
Fighting hopelessness
why depression is so hard to recover from
my original patreon page
This is a copy of the original pitch on my Patreon page. I am keeping it here for posterity.