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I think running clubs flopped because real runners know running is a solitary me-versus-me activity. It’s active meditation, moving monologue, not for socializing. It’s to be alone with your ideas and sharpen them in the creativity lab inside your head

Aritzia fitting room is girardian the way those communal mirrors force you to try clothes on in the open so your decisions can be swayed by imitation and possibly subconscious rivalry

you’re telling me this market is poly

I think for many the appeal of therapy is just having somewhere to store secrets, like Dorian Gray caching his ugliness in a painting to protect his public image. Sometimes being listened to gives the effect of being fixed, therapy archives the parts that don’t fit your persona

Are you an only child and do you wish you had siblings

Poured my heart out in “confessions of an only child”

I have a few incredibly effective tricks for falling asleep fast that I’ll never share not because I want to gatekeep but because a part of my brain knows that they’re completely placebo and explaining them out loud would kill the very thing that makes them effective for me

The only thing before the invention of pointing is probably having whites in our eyes. Direction of pupils tells others what we’re looking at so we can focus on the same thing

chatgpt is way better than i am at communication i genuinely think my wild imagination, curiosity, and proclivity to daydream and fantasize are the only things I have left, also, I haven’t found a nonfiction book/essay that brings me joy in a long time, i only read fiction now

The value of the sci fi genre isn’t to hypothesize what we can build, but what we can be or do with the things we build. It’s not about “look what’s technologically possible”, it’s “morally, who do we become when tech makes this possible? What should we do with newfound power?”

I wonder what therapists talk to their therapists about. and what if there are like 5 of them that are actually in a client-therapist closed circle that they don’t know about this would make a great film

the female equivalent of “i can land this plane in an emergency” is “i can pull a gone girl if i really wanted to”

yea i’m technical (i know how to change my wifi name and password)

how is there a lack of third places what do u think those ikea showrooms are for

my personal hell is being stuck between a size 2 and 4

Not only is AI going to make everyone a personality hire, it’s going to make it more explicit that hiring has always been swayed by qualitative factors like “is this person fun to work with”, and that after a certain point, character is the bottleneck of career growth, not skill

yes but is this engagement farmed ethically

Eckhart Tolle’s Power of Now is basically about the resurrection: the past is dead, the only living moment is “now”. Every “now” contains the option for rebirth. You can always rise again, right this second, and even in the depths of trauma or regret there’s the will of a return