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#52 How to actually grow up
On the necessity of bad decisions, mistakes, and self-created existential suffering
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Holly Whitaker
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April 2023
Recovering roundup, AI/social media edition
25 links that pretty much say good news/bad news, the internet's on fire
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Holly Whitaker
#51 What's the actual cost?
On how to calculate success (and 10 years of not drinking, kind of)
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Holly Whitaker
#50 On being a messy traveler
and self-improvement as "a subtle form of aggression against who we really are"
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Holly Whitaker
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March 2023
#49 Do you want it because you want it or because you think everyone else wants it
On mistrusting yourself, because of the internet
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 Roundup
A 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…
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Holly Whitaker
#48 Rethinking perfectionism
9 of your (and my) questions about perfectionism and addiction, answered by the author of The Perfectionist's Guide To Losing Control, Katherine Morgan…
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#47 What you're not good at anymore
On 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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Holly Whitaker
February 2023
#45 On asexuality, sobriety, and compulsory culture
An audio conversation with the author Angela Chen on asexuality, compulsory sexuality, and the questions many of us don't know to even ask.
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Holly Whitaker
#44 Transitions, part 1: The fundamental ambiguity of being human
A three part series on what to do when you don't know what to do
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Holly Whitaker
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