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Listening to Fire
What I Learned Building a Glove to Catch My Dreams I am still fresh to software engineering like an arctic fish is to tropical water. The successes and failures in my projects are still imaginary. I was surprised by the powerful effect of creating in reality. Cutting and burning my fingers and getting pleasantly dizzy…
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dream yourself clean?
quit fucking around. that’s my epiphany of the last few days. but without my newest insights into sleep science those words seem like betrayal. i fuck around and find out and that’s my excuse to smoke a lot of weed. can the positive effect of this be achieved in any more serious way? dream science…
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rabbit undresses zebra
a rabbit is a holy habit a rabbit thus is the spirit animal of the culture kids with actimel who grow up to find party swollen the rabit is the pleasure animal if the carrot is the vulture on the grill the zebra is a fancy horse the question what to wear brings it in…
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kinder cocaine
Tearing into that Kinder Surprise (überraschung-ei) foil as kids—that violent unwrapping—reveals more about our neural wiring than any calcified LinkedIn post about “embracing uncertainty” ever could. That moment before discovery isn’t cute; it’s fucking primal. Our adult brains chase that same hit through increasingly desperate channels: promotions, purchases, porn, whatever gets our synapses to twitch…
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shit bucket junkies
[Disclaimer: What follows is written by my shit bucket junkie alter ego not by me but yeah who is me.] We’re not in love with narrative—we’re in cold sweat of narrative withdrawal. The same cold grip you feel when six faces turn to you at dinner and you realize you’ve got absolutely nothing to say.…
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Sweet Spot or Sweet Trap?
Tension is the gap between expectation and reality. Most of us spend our lives saying “I want to be happy” on repeat, like stuck vinyl records. But what if complete satisfaction is actually our enemy? What if that tension—that delicious, frustrating gap—is exactly what drives us forward? The Archer’s Wisdom Strategy is the north star…
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Conformist Camembert
Recently while making flatbread in France, something fascinating happened. As usual, we were eating it with strong camembert cheese which makes the strawberry jam you put on it shy away in flavor. I had a piece of that strong camembert on my plate, slightly runny from the warm bread. At some point, my friend noticed…
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childish salt crystals
Ever half-wake thinking you’ve answered texts, only to realize your phone’s untouched? This “ghost hand” syndrome haunted me for years—dream productivity that vanished upon waking. Salt water doesn’t make you a better swimmer; it changes the game entirely. This morning, I caught myself drowning in the Red Ocean—overthinking podcast strategies, website copy, sinking deeper with…
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Mastery confuses me
This morning, I dreamed me and my business partner were on a mountain slope, surrounded by thick fog. Suddenly from behind us, a cat emerged, running really fast, looking absurd in this oxygen-rich air that immediately invigorates you in those green mountains. The cat wore a metal hat—literally a metal pot in which its little…
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