Category: wandering & thinking

  • ask me again next year

    ask me again next year

    Compared to this time last year are you happier or sadder? At the end of this month it will have been exactly two and a half years since I left that stable job and set out on an adventure of random and self employment. Two. And a half. Years. It was a story of burnout

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  • on online

    on online

    What is your perspective on the culture of 2025? Can I write what I really want to write here without getting put on a list somewhere that prevents me from crossing borders? Hmm… I mean, you’re online. You’re almost certainly reading this on a screen, in a web browser, through a magic wire that connects

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  • puppy love

    puppy love

    Without asking how would people describe you in 2025? We all want to viewed favourably, don’t we?  I mean I’m sure there are exceptions out there, oddball folks who thrive on division and get off on people hating them. Just look at the internet after all: it’s like a zoo for people like that, all

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  • fear of stupid

    fear of stupid

    What do you wish you’d done less of this past year? I have a terrible case of something I’m going to call FOGWI… or fear of giving the wrong impression. It is awkward to admit it, but I really find that I (often subconsciously) make stupid choices about even the most mundane choices because I

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  • third-place-less

    third-place-less

    I’m sitting in a coffee shop trying to do some writing, but first I needed to get some words off my chest: this was fifth out-of-the house writing location I tried. It’s shortly after lunchtime on a Monday in October and the first four locations I tried—including three other cafes and the local public library—were

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