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Transitions, part 2: 21 thoughts on how to be lost"An incomplete collection of potentially imprecise and contradictory field notes on how to be lost, or how I tried to be lost"
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Recovering RoundupA response to the M. Szalavitz NYT column on AA, many good books, robots who write your novel, filters that make you sad, a hormone that makes you un-drunk, a playlist that makes you chill
Mar 17
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#49 Do you want it because you want it or because you think everyone else wants itOn mistrusting yourself, because of the internet
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#48 Rethinking perfectionism9 of your (and my) questions about perfectionism and addiction, answered by the author of The Perfectionist's Guide To Losing Control, Katherine Morgan Schafler
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#47 What you're not good at anymoreOn mistaking what is being given to you for what is being taken
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#46 Maybe we're not supposed to be making sense of all this“A society of anecdotes without a narrative”
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#45 On asexuality, sobriety, and compulsory cultureAn audio conversation with the author Angela Chen on asexuality, compulsory sexuality, and the questions many of us don't know to even ask.
Feb 22
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#44 Transitions, part 1: The fundamental ambiguity of being humanA three part series on what to do when you don't know what to do
Feb 13
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Weekend Thread: What do you with anger?What do you do with your anger? What’s anger like for you? Is it something close to the surface for you, an easily accessible emotion you have t…
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#43 Too much internetA short paragraph, very many links
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#42 Where's Big Alcohol's class action suit? A new Canadian guideline spotlights our cultural indifference to holding anyone but the sick accountable
Jan 25
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[For podcast players] #42 Where's Big Alcohol's class action suit?Listen now (35 min) | A new Canadian guideline spotlights our cultural indifference to holding anyone but the sick accountable
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#47 What you're not good at anymore
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#46 Maybe we're not supposed to be making sense of all this
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#26 The courage to listen to ourselves
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Transitions, part 2: 21 thoughts on how to be lost
104
29
The 50 best books I read in the after times, reviewed
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#39 How to find your life's purpose
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Recovering

casual musings on life through the lens of addiction, recovery, alcohol, and all the other drugs like your smartphone // a weekly newsletter with 10 curated resources delivered every Tuesday
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