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Thinking of AI as an intuition machine
Why there's a "6" on my palm, the meaning of "Decide Nothing," cave art, AI-assisted inner work, DALL-E, Jaron Lanier's "data dignity," Captain Rob, and…
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Beauty, inspiration and entertainment from Spring 2023
Henry Miller, Carl Jung, Cullen Thomas, Meghan Daum, Aristotle, Samuel R. Delany, The Emerald, Giri / Haji, Count Me In
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I'm here to be myself as much as possible—and the absolute truth can only be...nothing.
A conversation about meaning, identity, physicality, and purpose with Bowen Dwelle and Andy Johns
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Eighteen essays about addiction, masculinity, creativity, and intuition
As well as anxiety, fitness, sobriety, self-discipline, purpose, love, adventure, pain yoga, intuition, the collective unconscious, psychedelics…
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Staying sane with research notes, citations, end notes, and a real bibliography
Using Scrivener, a good pencil, Zotero, and Obsidian together as a system
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"Writing yourself into existence" with Lyle McKeany
Writing yourself into existence, how writing is like music, whether men can say “sex”, writing memoir as a man, what we're afraid to write about…
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Lyle McKeany
Doing my best to get my nose in it
Memoir and personal essay on identity, intuition, addiction and more.
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The Dream I've Dreamed a Thousand Times
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 25 — One Dream
What I've Learned from Ten Brothers and Teachers
Adam Gayner, Roddy McDowell, Lucas Krump, T Callahan, Bob Conlin, Anthony David Adams, Robert Ellis, Kenyon Phillips, Noah Rainey, and James Brown on…
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What is Intuition? A Whole and Open Mind
An inner voice, guardian within, embodied cognition, pattern recognition, knowing without knowing how, understanding through the senses, bone knowledge…
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The Thing That Refuses To Be Named
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 29 — A Hard-Won Peace
Fifty definitive memoirs
Nothing inspires more than the truth of another person's experience, transmitted directly.
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