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For when you feel helpless and angry about evil in the world.
These are your dominoes, the dominoes of your life: Around them, are all the dominoes of your family and home: Around those dominoes, are your extended family, friends, church, local community: Around those, are the wider culture and the world. Let’s look at your dominoes. You’ve got your relational dominoes, career dominoes, health dominoes: Every…
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The Man Who Loved a Box
There once was a man who had a box. When the man pressed buttons on the box, Different patterns of light would flash, and different sounds would play. Sometimes lovely, sometimes not so much. When the man would have to do something unpleasant, the box would make the task seem less unpleasant. Of course, if the task was present the man would never be able to tell,…
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Internet Hygiene: Rules to keep the internet from making you sad, angry, self-obsessed, and afraid
It’s pretty clear that internet can be pretty darn unhealthy, so we most definitely need a series of practices for hygienic internet use, if we want to preserve our mental health. I dream that someday, we’d all consider these practices normal, and the lack of good internet hygiene would be considered, like all good hygiene,…
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You’re off the hook.
Congrats. You’re off the hook.
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Duty vs. Responsibility: When expectations conflict with your gifts.
There’s a difference between being dutiful, and being responsible.
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What do we owe each other?
I was reading Cancer Ward, a harrowing and compassionate look at cancer patients in 1950s Russia by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. I was reading a section of the book about doctors making errors, about how there were cases on the record of people dying from aspirin, how a doctor really never knows if their well-meaning treatment will…
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He feels lazy, she feels like a nag: how to cooperate when you have different standards.
We’ve faced a few problems when sharing household tasks. I’ll describe the problems, they’ll probably sound familiar to you.
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How to pursue dreams when life is busy and complicated.
So, maybe you have an aspiration to do something – maybe you want to write a book, maybe you want to start a side hustle.You’ve probably gone looking for advice on how to get things done, because, as it turns out, getting things done is hard. Unbelievably hard. Ridiculously hard. You might work to carve…
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That one time my neurotic, safety-obsessed, 7w6 personality saved our lives.
In the Big Five Personality test, I score high in neuroticism. Very high.