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How You Spend It: samfeldstein.xyz

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Space for the New: samfeldstein.xyz

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D'var Coen: Kindness as Duh-Statement: samfeldstein.xyz

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My Rules of Writing: samfeldstein.xyz

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Digest: 2025-01-05: samfeldstein.xyz

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An Informal Guide to the Iowa State Fair: samfeldstein.xyz

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An Informal Guide to the Iowa State Fair: samfeldstein.micro.blog

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Who Writes Your Thoughts? samfeldstein.xyz

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Unhealthy Skepticism: samfeldstein.xyz

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Things Make Sense: samfeldstein.xyz

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Who Writes Your Thoughts? samfeldstein.micro.blog

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Unhealthy Skepticism: samfeldstein.micro.blog

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Things Make Sense: samfeldstein.micro.blog

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Rational Goodness: samfeldstein.xyz

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Rational Goodness: samfeldstein.micro.blog

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Old Heavy Voices: samfeldstein.micro.blog

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Old Heavy Voices: samfeldstein.xyz

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My Problem With Programming: samfeldstein.micro.blog

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My Problem With Programming: samfeldstein.xyz

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What is Rain? samfeldstein.micro.blog

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Friendly reminder from George Saunders, via Maria Popova, that you don’t have to be one thing. In fact, maybe you shouldn’t be:

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It’s hard to be alive. The anxiety of living makes us want to judge, be sure, have a stance, definitively decide. Having a fixed, rigid system of belief can be a great relief.

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Reconsideration is hard; it takes courage. We have to deny ourselves the comfort of always being the same person, one who arrived at an answer some time ago and has never had any reason to doubt it.

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📝

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What is Rain? samfeldstein.micro.blog

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What is Rain? samfeldstein.xyz

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Mining and Refining: The Two Modes of Writing: samfeldstein.xyz

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Mining and Refining: The Two Modes of Writing: samfeldstein.xyz

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