Category: Life
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Notes on fragmented sleep
I’m really good at waking up. I’m so good at waking up, in fact, that occasionally I wake up two hours too early. I used to find it difficult to fall back asleep. When I asked a doctor about this, they told me it was called “fragmented sleep” and there wasn’t that much they could…
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Keep the back up plan a back up plan
The future is unpredictable. It’s always great to have an option, maybe two, in case things don’t go according to plan. That’s why you’d want to have a backup plan. In my freshman year in university, I made a backup plan that took too much of my energy. According to my plan, I would switch…
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Who you are vs. how you appear
I recently came across The Luddite Club co-founder Logan Lane’s speech at MoMA R&D Salon 48 entitled, “No More Likes” (via Alex Vadukul). Her closing message really resonated with me: There’s a certain vulnerability unique to younger generations, having grown up digital natives. For the youth of today, the developmental experience has been polluted. It’s…
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Three quotes on routine living
Living a heavily structured life, always by the rules, also drains it of vitality. “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead,” Aldous Huxley writes. That’s part of the drawbacks of relying too heavily on habits; the action becomes practically mechanical. “The beauty of an action comes…