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tags:
- dispatch
references:
+- title: "Key, in sight – Aresluna"
+ url: https://aresluna.org/key-in-sight/
+ date: 2026-06-01T04:29:49Z
+ file: aresluna-org-hcpaiq.txt
+- title: "The big button"
+ url: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/big-button/
+ date: 2026-06-01T04:29:50Z
+ file: www-robinsloan-com-sokpt5.txt
- title: "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader — Max Glenister"
url: https://blog.omgmog.net/post/xteink-x4-e-ink-reader/
date: 2026-06-30T05:51:00Z
file: blog-omgmog-net-utgcqb.txt
+- title: "My Enjoyment From Engagement With Media Deepens As I Grow Older | Brain Baking"
+ url: https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/06/my-enjoyment-from-media-deepens-as-i-grow-older/
+ date: 2026-07-14T05:22:13Z
+ file: brainbaking-com-zoehew.txt
+- title: "Golden Hour | Ian Ewing | Radio Juicy"
+ url: https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/album/golden-hour
+ date: 2026-07-14T05:20:27Z
+ file: radiojuicy-bandcamp-com-ytgvbv.txt
+- title: "Accidental anonymity - macwright.com"
+ url: https://macwright.com/2026/06/24/accidental-anonymity.html
+ date: 2026-07-14T05:20:29Z
+ file: macwright-com-5gx64c.txt
+- title: "A quote from Tom MacWright"
+ url: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/24/tom-macwright/#atom-everything
+ date: 2026-07-14T05:20:30Z
+ file: simonwillison-net-1z8jir.txt
+- title: "Just Be Normal About Things - by JA Westenberg - WESTENBERG"
+ url: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/just-be-normal-about-st
+ date: 2026-07-14T05:20:48Z
+ file: www-joanwestenberg-com-tzkhcz.txt
+- title: "Just Be Normal About Things - Westenberg — baty.net"
+ url: https://baty.net/posts/2026/06/just-be-normal-about-things-westenberg/
+ date: 2026-07-14T05:20:49Z
+ file: baty-net-0vthzv.txt
+- title: "Home | mise-en-place"
+ url: https://mise.jdx.dev/
+ date: 2026-07-14T05:20:53Z
+ file: mise-jdx-dev-cas964.txt
+- title: "May 2026 - Tim Hårek"
+ url: https://timharek.no/blog/2026-may-recently/
+ date: 2026-07-14T05:20:54Z
+ file: timharek-no-ayhq6a.txt
---
Nico turned two in June. What the hell! Where's my baby boy, and who's this sassy little dude running around my house. We threw him a farm-themed birthday (my man loves cows), then took the kids up to see their cousins in Richmond. The next weekend, we went camping with Claire's family at [Carolina Hemlocks Recreation Area][1]. This was awesome -- bit of a haul for sure, and the boy couldn't handle the switchbacks on the way up the mountain, but we were rewarded with a beautiful campsite with river views and temperatures a good 20°F cooler than around here.
@@ -28,38 +68,39 @@ Nico turned two in June. What the hell! Where's my baby boy, and who's this sass
In what's surely a sign of a creatively unfulfilling month, here are my thoughts about a few recent purchases:
-**[Aventon Pace 5 REC Step-Through Ebike][2]:** we ordered Claire a new bike after [hers was stolen last month][3]. This thing is sweet, some nice upgrades from the previous version. I'm jealous of some of the tech, and especially the power to get up some of the bigger hills around here. At the same time, I'm pretty chuffed with how much mileage I've gotten out of my low-tech, single-speed e-bike; there's something very pure and utilitarian about it that I appreciate.
+**[Aventon Pace 5 REC E-Bike][2]:** we ordered Claire a new bike after [hers was stolen last month][3]. This thing is sweet, some nice upgrades from the previous version. I'm jealous of some of the tech, and especially the power to get up some of the bigger hills around here. At the same time, I'm pretty chuffed with how much mileage I've gotten out of my low-tech, single-speed e-bike; there's something very pure and utilitarian about it that I appreciate.
[2]: https://www.aventon.com/products/pace-5-rec-step-through-ebike?variant=45136728031427
[3]: /journal/dispatch-40-june-2026/
-**[DOIO KB16 Triple Knob Macro Pad Keyboard][4]:** I got absolutely sniped by [this post about macro keyboards][5] and ended up picking this thing up. Physically, it is a well-made object and pairs nicely with my [keyboard][6]. I appreciate a good thwack, so I ordered some [nice clicky switches][7] (and actually swapped out the switches in my main keyboard as well, which makes typing this sentence quite satisfying) as well as some [transparent keycaps][8] inspired by that original post. I also printed a [stand][9] which puts it at a better angle and also somehow makes it feel more "mine."
+**[DOIO KB16 Triple Knob Macro Pad Keyboard][4]:** I got absolutely sniped by [this post about macro keyboards][5] ([via][6]) and ended up picking this thing up. Physically, it is a well-made object and pairs nicely with my [keyboard][7]. I appreciate a good thwack, so I ordered some [nice clicky switches][8] (and actually swapped out the switches in my main keyboard as well, which makes typing this sentence quite satisfying) as well as some [transparent keycaps][9] inspired by that original post. I also printed a [stand][10] which puts it at a better angle and also somehow makes it feel more "mine."
[4]: https://doioshop.com/products/doio-16-keys-programmable-multifunction-mechanical-keyboard-translucent-acrylic-kb16-01?VariantsId=10571
[5]: https://aresluna.org/key-in-sight/
-[6]: https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q1?variant=39898909212761
-[7]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGCDYF3Q
-[8]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQ2YM5FM
-[9]: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2215678-doio-megalodon-triple-knob-macro-pad-stand#profileId-2408970
+[6]: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/big-button/
+[7]: https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q1?variant=39898909212761
+[8]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGCDYF3Q
+[9]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQ2YM5FM
+[10]: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2215678-doio-megalodon-triple-knob-macro-pad-stand#profileId-2408970
-In terms of what to do with a whole bunch of new buttons, I'm still figuring that out. I've got a few set up to do some common work tasks (join my next meeting, start a new [Harvest][10] timer, etc.) and some window management things (full/half/quarter screen). I'm trying to be mindful of annoying things I do frequently that take more than a few keystrokes.
+In terms of what to do with a whole bunch of new buttons, I'm still figuring that out. I've got a few set up to do some common work tasks (join my next meeting, start a new [Harvest][11] timer, etc.) and some window management things (full/half/quarter screen). I'm trying to be mindful of annoying things I do frequently that take more than a few keystrokes.
-[10]: https://www.getharvest.com/
+[11]: https://www.getharvest.com/
-**[Xteink X3 Pocket eReader][11]:** I ordered this tiny e-reader after reading a few too many gushing blog posts and comments in [Installer][12]. My initial experience was pretty bad -- it's marketed as something you stick onto the back of your phone with magnets, but my phone (an iPhone 13 Mini I'm loathe to give up) is pretty small and it didn't really work. What's more, it couldn't handle the first e-book I loaded onto it. (It has a bunch of images? Not sure but it just sort of bugged out and then locked up.)
+**[Xteink X3 Pocket eReader][12]:** I ordered this tiny e-reader after reading a few too many gushing blog posts and comments in [Installer][13]. My initial experience was pretty bad -- it's marketed as something you stick onto the back of your phone with magnets, but my phone (an iPhone 13 Mini I'm loathe to give up) is pretty small and it didn't really work. What's more, it couldn't handle the first e-book I loaded onto it. (It has a bunch of images? Not sure but it just sort of bugged out and then locked up.)
-[11]: https://www.xteink.com/products/xteink-x3
-[12]: https://www.theverge.com/installer-newsletter
+[12]: https://www.xteink.com/products/xteink-x3
+[13]: https://www.theverge.com/installer-newsletter
-I put it away for a few days until I stumbled on [this post][13], which described a few alternate firmwares and let me to [Inx][14], which is much smoother and could actually load my book, though it still struggled on the pages with photos. I printed a [simple case][15] in my favorite dark gray, giving it a little bit of protection and, again, putting my stamp on it. Then I found [some software][16] to convert EPUB files to the device's native format (and even made a [simple bug fix][17]), which has resolved the image issues and improved the reading experience overall.
+I put it away for a few days until I stumbled on [this post][14], which described a few alternate firmwares and let me to [Inx][15], which is much smoother and could actually load my book, though it still struggled on the pages with photos. I printed a [simple case][16] in my favorite dark gray, giving it a little bit of protection and, again, putting my stamp on it. Then I found [some software][17] to convert EPUB files to the device's native format (and even made a [simple bug fix][18]), which has resolved the image issues and improved the reading experience overall.
Now things are working well -- I'm happy with the device and I'm finally making good progress in _Every Tool's a Hammer_. It's nice to have something to grab when I'm looking for a distraction that isn't my phone. It's neat that there's such a robust community of folks making things for this device, but I'd be hard pressed to recommend it to someone who doesn't want to tinker.
-[13]: https://blog.omgmog.net/post/xteink-x4-e-ink-reader/
-[14]: https://github.com/obijuankenobiii/inx
-[15]: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2758511-xteink-x3-case
-[16]: https://github.com/thirteen37/calibre-xtc
-[17]: https://github.com/thirteen37/calibre-xtc/pull/3
+[14]: https://blog.omgmog.net/post/xteink-x4-e-ink-reader/
+[15]: https://github.com/obijuankenobiii/inx
+[16]: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2758511-xteink-x3-case
+[17]: https://github.com/thirteen37/calibre-xtc
+[18]: https://github.com/thirteen37/calibre-xtc/pull/3
### This Month
@@ -69,20 +110,41 @@ Now things are working well -- I'm happy with the device and I'm finally making
### Reading & Listening
-* Fiction: [_The Dragon Republic_][18], R. F. Kuang
-* Non-fiction: [_Every Tool's a Hammer_][19], Adam Savage
-* Music: [_Season One_][20], Peninsula Recordings
+* Fiction: [_The Dragon Republic_][19], R. F. Kuang
+* Non-fiction: [_Every Tool's a Hammer_][20], Adam Savage
+* Music: [_Season One_][21], Peninsula Recordings
-[18]: https://harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk/products/the-dragon-republic-the-poppy-war-book-2-rf-kuang-9780008239879/
-[19]: https://www.simonandschuster.net/books/Every-Tools-a-Hammer/Adam-Savage/9781982113483
-[20]: http://peninsularecordings.bandcamp.com/album/season-one
+[19]: https://harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk/products/the-dragon-republic-the-poppy-war-book-2-rf-kuang-9780008239879/
+[20]: https://www.simonandschuster.net/books/Every-Tools-a-Hammer/Adam-Savage/9781982113483
+[21]: http://peninsularecordings.bandcamp.com/album/season-one
### Links
-* [Title][21]
-* [Title][22]
-* [Title][23]
+* [My Enjoyment From Engagement With Media Deepens As I Grow Older | Brain Baking][22]
-[21]: https://example.com/
-[22]: https://example.com/
-[23]: https://example.com/
+ > One of the most protective things you can do against the negative consequences of ageing is learning a craft when you are young and keep on practising it. The second best thing you can do is learning something new when you are older.
+
+* [Golden Hour | Ian Ewing | Radio Juicy][23]
+
+ > Radio Juicy is happy to present Golden Hour, a six‑track journey from beatsmith Ian Ewing, who channels pure nostalgia through organic drums, warm analog tones, and melodies that drift like memories.
+
+* [Accidental anonymity - macwright.com][24] ([via][25])
+
+ > My other reaction is that I don't know anything about these people. They haven't put themselves out there. They haven't said anything true.
+
+* [Just Be Normal About Things - by JA Westenberg - WESTENBERG][26] ([via][27])
+
+ > Be normal, and opt out of the deranged belief that the only way to take something seriously is to take it to the most extreme possible conclusion.
+
+* [Home | mise-en-place][28] ([via][29])
+
+ > One tool to manage languages, env vars, and tasks per project, reproducibly.
+
+[22]: https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/06/my-enjoyment-from-media-deepens-as-i-grow-older/
+[23]: https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/album/golden-hour
+[24]: https://macwright.com/2026/06/24/accidental-anonymity.html
+[25]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/24/tom-macwright/#atom-everything
+[26]: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/just-be-normal-about-st
+[27]: https://baty.net/posts/2026/06/just-be-normal-about-things-westenberg/
+[28]: https://mise.jdx.dev/
+[29]: https://timharek.no/blog/2026-may-recently/
diff --git a/static/archive/baty-net-0vthzv.txt b/static/archive/baty-net-0vthzv.txt
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+[1] Jack Baty baty.net
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+June 10, 2026 [8]Culture
+
+Just Be Normal About Things - Westenberg
+
+[9]JA Westenberg:
+
+ To be normal about things is to preserve a private center that doesn’t get
+ annexed by every passing demand. I can care about this without becoming it.
+ I can improve this without worshiping it. I can be concerned without being
+ consumed. I can participate without surrendering judgment. I can change my
+ mind without staging a conversion narrative. I can be imperfect without
+ making imperfection my brand. I can be serious without being unbearable.
+
+ A normal life has room for contradiction.
+
+I know I quote Joan a lot, but I can't help it, they think like I do, and write
+well about it.
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+My Enjoyment From Engagement With Media Deepens As I Grow Older
+
+15 June 2026
+
+I am not yet done thinking about nostalgia. In [7]Nostalgia Always Includes a
+Temporal Context, I claim that we can never fully relive a nostalgic moment
+from the past precisely because of its temporal context—the past. In this
+article, I claim that my enjoyment from engaging with media, that in ten or
+twenty years yields the juicy fruits of nostalgia, deepens as I grow older.
+This idea can work as a remedy for an acute case of midlife crisis or nostalgic
+depression.
+
+The problem with my nostalgia for games from yesteryear is that it can
+sometimes be asphyxiating up to the point that I think I won’t enjoy anything
+else. Even worse, if I do decide to replay said game, because of the shift in
+temporal context, I can’t recreate the same moment and will feel disappointed.
+You shouldn’t try to “restore” that nostalgic moment: instead, you should
+“reflect” on it and enjoy your happy moments. Engagement with new material
+might result in more disappointments precisely because of that obsession with
+past media.
+
+Yet I think the present has kept one huge joker close to its chest: the older
+you get, the deeper your engagement with media. Or at least that is my personal
+experience. Time becomes much more valuable thanks to other obligations. The
+more games you play, the more you know what you like and what you don’t, and
+the better you can fillet its gameplay mechanics and storytelling. The more I
+write about games, the more I look into its background and creation process.
+For me, writing a few thoughts after I’m done with it is an extension of the
+gameplay, prolonging my engagement (and thus fun) with that game.
+
+When I was younger, I just played whatever I was gifted or could afford. I
+cared less and could stomach endless grinding because it felt like I had
+endless amounts of time on my hands anyway. I didn’t explicitly add context by
+looking into its development process. I didn’t read reviews or game experience
+reports of others besides the “official” ones from PC Gameplay et al.
+
+In short, I don’t think I appreciated media as a piece of art [8]like I do now.
+I didn’t yet nurture that skill. Yet you could argue that with growing older
+comes being more critical which could easily hamper the enjoyment, but I say
+that having well-placed critique means being able to contextualise precisely
+because of that deeper engagement. Also, playing mediocre games doesn’t have to
+mean you’re not enjoying yourself.
+
+In Daniel J. Levitin’s [9]Successful Aging book, a case for complex cognitive
+activities is made as a cure for the negative aspects of ageing. I think that
+happens almost naturally provided you keep on learning and exploring new things
+(such as games?). In Levitin’s own words (my translation from the Dutch version
+I read):
+
+ One of the most protective things you can do against the negative
+ consequences of ageing is learning a craft when you are young and keep on
+ practising it. The second best thing you can do is learning something new
+ when you are older.
+
+In the case of engagement with media, playing a new game, exploring a new
+genre, looking up the history of one of your favourite games, or investigating
+other ways to play older games such as fiddling with [10]randomizers could
+qualify as “learning something new”. This is also a wake-up call for the
+hopeless nostalgic who keeps on replaying the same old games but finds less and
+less satisfaction at the credits screen.
+
+As I write and think about nostalgia and video games, my pattern matching brain
+yields new connections and ideas. That’s the essence of Brain Baking! But
+that’s also the essence of what I’m trying to say here: you will more deeply
+engage and enjoy things if you fully dive into it and you can only do that if
+you’ve been diving for years and years.
+
+To me, that message is reassuring. It means it’s okay to get older. I will
+still enjoy things. No, I will enjoy things even more—I will just not be able
+to enjoy as much. And that’s probably also a good thing. It reminds me that my
+grandfather who still enjoyed Lego and the odd video game when he was still
+with us in the early nineties probably enjoyed it more than the little kid he
+was playing with (that would be me).
+
+Does my taste for media change? Of course, but not just my preference, also my
+ability to complete them. I have no idea how I managed to finish Hollow Knight
+and I’m scared to start Silksong even though I want to: my reflexes might not
+be what they used to be and my patience to backtrack to retrieve my dead body
+might have diminished. I’ve been wanting to start a Dragon Quest game for so
+long now, but the grinding is off-putting given my limited ability to only play
+a good hour a day.
+
+The fact that a game can be viewed as a piece of art is for me a relatively
+recent development. In narrative-heavy games such as Morrowind, I never really
+took the time to flip through the various books that add lore to the game
+world. Now I do. I never really gave the environment my playable character
+lives in a thorough look. Now I do. That reminds me, I should put Morrowind
+back on the backlog—it somehow failed to keep my attention back in the day.
+
+It’s also easier to place these games in their historical context. I play old
+games for old video game systems, new games for old video game systems, and new
+games for new video game systems. As my older self, I can trace their
+influence, compare their different aspects, and form an opinion based on that.
+My younger self just wanted to get lost in the virtual game world to not have
+to cope with the real world.
+
+Perhaps, in a way, I might even like getting older.
+
+[11]learning [12]nostalgia
+
+You Might Also Like...
+
+ • [13]Nostalgia Always Includes a Temporal Context 27 Apr 2026
+ • [14]Why I Play Games (And So Should You) 23 Jan 2022
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diff --git a/static/archive/macwright-com-5gx64c.txt b/static/archive/macwright-com-5gx64c.txt
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+[1]Tom MacWright
+
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+
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+
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+Accidental anonymity
+
+2026-06-24
+
+I went on a run this morning and got the idea to write this, but [13]Nolen and
+[14]Robin and [15]Robin again have written other, maybe better versions of it.
+Still, I have some recent experience and feelings to get out there, so here
+goes:
+
+Like Robin, I have been getting a lot of incoming emails that follow an
+LLM-like formula of observation about me and how it could be relevant to some
+product + ask that i try the product. A lot of these seem LLM-generated.
+
+Also, I review job applications. I've been doing this for a long time, about 12
+years. I've read a lot of applications. In the last few months, I've started to
+see applications that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an
+LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links to LLM-generated GitHub
+projects, with purely LLM-generated commit messages.
+
+Partly, like Robin and Nolen, my reaction is that this is sad and I don't like
+it. Most LLM-related stuff has made me feel bad about people, work, and the
+world, and this is no different. I'm no purist - I use the tools and cannot
+deny that they're useful and powerful.
+
+My other reaction is that I don't know anything about these people.
+
+They haven't put themselves out there. They haven't said anything true.
+
+My personal prejudice here is pretty long-standing. I've written and sung
+songs, and published my artwork and writing on the internet for fifteen years,
+and a lot of the reaction I get is about how other people couldn't because they
+don't know how or don't think theirs is good enough or whatever, but let me be
+blunt for a brief moment: putting your art, writing, expression out to be
+judged by others is an act of bravery as much as talent, and a lot of people
+lack braver-y. Sorry to say it but if you need your work to be polished and
+beyond reproach, that's a determination and character problem, not a skill
+problem.
+
+The fear is being found out for being imperfect. The fear is also for being
+known in general: maybe you're a real butch tough guy but your art style is
+playful and tender and you don't want that side to come out. Maybe your taste
+is weird or undeveloped and you don't want anyone to know. But the person who
+puts nothing out for judgment just isn't known at all.
+
+Which brings me back to the current moment: the point of resumes and portfolios
+is not just to list credentials, it's to give some hint as to which kind of
+person will be sitting next to you, to be inspired by their arc or their human
+characteristics and capabilities. Are they determined? Did they start off
+building silly stuff in neopets and work their way up to programming, or create
+some project based on their personal interests?
+
+The perfected, generated, prompted resume is generic and impersonal. It tells
+me nothing about this person, other than that they use particular tools. I
+can't see the inputs to their outputs, see what they typed, or the process of
+building.
+
+The email about why I'm the right person to try your side project says nothing
+about you. I don't know why you made it, who you are. I don't know your writing
+style. I don't have any way to connect to you as a person, and no reason to
+care.
+
+I wrote a while ago about how [16]Pictures are famous for their humanness, and
+not for their pictureness.
+
+ People capable of liking some paintings or prints or whatever can rarely do
+ so without knowing something about the artist. Again, the situation is
+ social rather than scientific. Any work of art is half of a conversation
+ between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you.
+ Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for religiosity, for
+ suffering, for concupiscence, for rebellion, for sincerity, for jokes?
+
+I commiserate with the fear of being found out, and the want of perfection. But
+if you want people to connect with you as a person, you can't hide behind a
+machine. Publish your typos and show your struggle getting going. Be a human.
+
+
+References:
+
+[1] https://macwright.com/
+[2] https://macwright.com/
+[3] https://macwright.com/writing/
+[4] https://macwright.com/reading/
+[5] https://macwright.com/photos/
+[6] https://macwright.com/projects/
+[7] https://macwright.com/drawings/
+[8] https://macwright.com/micro/
+[9] https://macwright.com/about/
+[13] https://eieio.games/blog/legibility-of-effort/
+[14] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/fourth-law/
+[15] https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/ai-promotion/
+[16] https://macwright.com/2025/10/16/the-art-is-the-person
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+about
+
+Radio Juicy is happy to present Golden Hour, a six‑track journey from beatsmith
+Ian Ewing, who channels pure nostalgia through organic drums, warm analog
+tones, and melodies that drift like memories. He’s joined by close friends
+Strehlow and Gas‑Lab, whose touches add extra warmth and depth to the release.
+The project leans into Ian’s signature feel—live‑leaning percussion, textured
+layers, and grooves that sit perfectly in the pocket. It’s nostalgic without
+being retro, modern without losing its grit, and ultimately a short, sweet,
+deeply replayable collection for beat lovers and vibe chasers.
+
+credits
+
+released June 17, 2026
+
+Music written and produced by Ian Ewing
+Artwork & Illustration by clatinka
+Mastering by Mike Weidinger aka sterilOne at STAUB
+Published & distributed by Urban Waves
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+[101]discography
+
+ • [102] [a145734905]
+ [103]Golden Hour
+ Jun 2026
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+ [105]Warm Summer Nights
+ Jun 2026
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+[10] https://bandcamp.com/discover/hip-hop-rap
+[11] https://bandcamp.com/discover/experimental
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+[27] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/album/golden-hour#
+[28] https://bandcamp.com/urbanwaves?from=fanthanks
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+[30] https://bandcamp.com/johann_poinson?from=fanthanks
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+[38] https://bandcamp.com/flymagnetic?from=fanthanks
+[39] https://bandcamp.com/tobsen?from=fanthanks
+[40] https://bandcamp.com/jayscarlett?from=fanthanks
+[41] https://bandcamp.com/giemic84?from=fanthanks
+[42] https://bandcamp.com/jean-vivien?from=fanthanks
+[43] https://bandcamp.com/spratters?from=fanthanks
+[44] https://bandcamp.com/floreimann?from=fanthanks
+[45] https://bandcamp.com/quazimode?from=fanthanks
+[46] https://bandcamp.com/abstractnyc?from=fanthanks
+[47] https://bandcamp.com/MadGerman?from=fanthanks
+[48] https://bandcamp.com/krxnklyill?from=fanthanks
+[49] https://bandcamp.com/deluca?from=fanthanks
+[50] https://bandcamp.com/vinyl_41?from=fanthanks
+[51] https://bandcamp.com/puertonico?from=fanthanks
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+[53] https://bandcamp.com/alexrichter?from=fanthanks
+[54] https://bandcamp.com/mcslothalot?from=fanthanks
+[55] https://bandcamp.com/otherworldly?from=fanthanks
+[56] https://bandcamp.com/kobrad?from=fanthanks
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+[58] https://bandcamp.com/abeem?from=fanthanks
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+[61] https://bandcamp.com/njubero?from=fanthanks
+[62] https://bandcamp.com/jovello?from=fanthanks
+[63] https://bandcamp.com/leifmusik?from=fanthanks
+[64] https://bandcamp.com/joke_01?from=fanthanks
+[65] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/redeye
+[70] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/redeye
+[71] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/redeye
+[72] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/redeye?action=download
+[73] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/febrero-feat-gas-lab
+[74] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/febrero-feat-gas-lab
+[75] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/febrero-feat-gas-lab?action=download
+[76] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/golden-hour
+[77] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/golden-hour
+[78] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/golden-hour?action=download
+[79] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/snowbird
+[80] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/snowbird
+[81] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/snowbird?action=download
+[82] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/same-waves-feat-strehlow
+[83] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/same-waves-feat-strehlow
+[84] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/same-waves-feat-strehlow?action=download
+[85] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/coreopsis
+[86] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/coreopsis
+[87] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/track/coreopsis?action=download
+[88] https://bandcamp.com/discover/hip-hop?from=tralbum&artist=3612949834
+[89] https://bandcamp.com/discover/jazz?from=tralbum&artist=3612949834
+[90] https://bandcamp.com/discover/radio-juicy?from=tralbum&artist=3612949834
+[91] https://bandcamp.com/discover/beats?from=tralbum&artist=3612949834
+[92] https://bandcamp.com/discover/germany?from=tralbum&artist=3612949834
+[93] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/album/golden-hour#
+[94] https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0045591301_10.jpg
+[96] https://www.radiojuicy.com/
+[97] https://soundcloud.com/radiojuicy1
+[98] https://open.spotify.com/user/radiojuicy
+[99] http://urbanwavesrecords.com/
+[100] https://www.facebook.com/Radiojuicy
+[101] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/music
+[102] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/album/golden-hour
+[103] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/album/golden-hour
+[104] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/album/warm-summer-nights
+[105] https://radiojuicy.bandcamp.com/album/warm-summer-nights
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+
+24th June 2026
+
+ In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were
+ clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which
+ then links to LLM-generated GitHub projects, with purely LLM-generated
+ commit messages. [...]
+
+ My other reaction is that I don't know anything about these people.
+
+ They haven't put themselves out there. They haven't said anything true.
+ [...]
+
+ The perfected, generated, prompted resume is generic and impersonal. It
+ tells me nothing about this person, other than that they use particular
+ tools.
+
+— [4]Tom MacWright, Accidental anonymity
+
+Posted [5]24th June 2026 at 6:13 pm
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+ • [8]sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
+ - 5th July 2026
+
+This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on [9]24th June 2026.
+
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+[5] https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/24/
+[6] https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/9/gpt-5-6/
+[7] https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/7/sqlite-utils-4/
+[8] https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/5/sqlite-utils-fable/
+[9] https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/24/
+[10] https://simonwillison.net/tags/careers/
+[11] https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai/
+[12] https://simonwillison.net/tags/tom-macwright/
+[13] https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-misuse/
+[14] https://simonwillison.net/about/#disclosures
+[15] https://simonwillison.net/about/#about-site
+[16] https://simonwillison.net/2002/
+[17] https://simonwillison.net/2003/
+[18] https://simonwillison.net/2004/
+[19] https://simonwillison.net/2005/
+[20] https://simonwillison.net/2006/
+[21] https://simonwillison.net/2007/
+[22] https://simonwillison.net/2008/
+[23] https://simonwillison.net/2009/
+[24] https://simonwillison.net/2010/
+[25] https://simonwillison.net/2011/
+[26] https://simonwillison.net/2012/
+[27] https://simonwillison.net/2013/
+[28] https://simonwillison.net/2014/
+[29] https://simonwillison.net/2015/
+[30] https://simonwillison.net/2016/
+[31] https://simonwillison.net/2017/
+[32] https://simonwillison.net/2018/
+[33] https://simonwillison.net/2019/
+[34] https://simonwillison.net/2020/
+[35] https://simonwillison.net/2021/
+[36] https://simonwillison.net/2022/
+[37] https://simonwillison.net/2023/
+[38] https://simonwillison.net/2024/
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+[9]Tim Hårek Andreassen [10][email protected] [11]PGP key
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+May 2026
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+Published June 4, 2026
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+
+We’re half way through the year, time flies, and I have procrastinated writing
+this blogpost.
+
+🍀 Life
+
+I’m adjusting to having two kids 😅 It’s not the kids themselves making me
+tired, it’s everything the role demands of us as parents. Our oldest still
+wants to be the center of attention, which is understandable. But don’t get me
+wrong, it’s great having two kids! There’s so much to look forward to each day.
+The newborn is changing and growing for each day, and our oldest keeps showing
+us that she loves being the older sister, she wants to help out and be together
+as a family.
+
+May has been a weird month for me, I haven’t wanted to do much. I have
+procrastinated almost everything I usually do: working, exercising, walking the
+dog, work around the house, reading, writing, and so on. As I’m writing this it
+feels like I’m out of the worst of it, because my energy has been much better
+the last few days.
+
+🧑💻 Development
+
+I rediscovered [12]mise and actually read what it does. I’m 100% sold on its
+idea. mise pins tool versions, manages environments, and gives me a task runner
+per project, it has replaced the Makefile across my projects and made
+maintaining the same environment across machines much easier. No more
+memorizing CLI commands like Hugo’s!
+
+I’ve also adopted [13]fnox (by the same developer) for secrets. It keeps the
+values age-encrypted, so they can live committed in the repo. At work I
+introduced mise alongside fnox as the “front-end” for the secrets we store in
+1Password on our two biggest projects.
+
+I’m noticing I have a deep appreciation for developer tooling.
+
+🎬 Entertainment
+
+From my [14]logs.
+
+Movies
+
+ • Normal (2026) – Cool movie. Nothing more, nothing less.
+ • The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026) – Why did they make this? It was Frank
+ (Jon) going around making grunts and looking almost like crying the entire
+ “TV movie”. I like Jon, but WTF was this.
+ • Predator: Badlands (2025) – Rewatched with my SO. Still good! Hoping for a
+ great future of the Predator (and Alien) franchise!
+ • Obsession (2026) – Phenomenal acting, music, and characters! I don’t want
+ to spoil anything. Everyone needs to see this movie. It’s not perfect, but
+ very close. The ending felt somewhat rushed.
+
+TV
+
+ • Daredevil: Born Again (S2) – Throughout this season I was really hoping for
+ more crossover characters. There were some, but I’m still missing some.
+ Overall the season was fun. It’s hard not to think of the mayor stuff to be
+ social commentary of what’s currently going on in the US.
+ • BEEF (S2) – Same shit, different beef. Blackmail and lies will always come
+ back and bite you in the ass.
+ • The Boys (S5) – The source material’s ending has a lot more umph, but I
+ understand why they chose a different approach. I liked this season, and
+ the send-off was nice.
+ • Half Man (S1) – Great show! It was a real rollercoaster of shit happening.
+ At first I thought it was going to be a really bad show, but Gadd (creator)
+ surprised me with Baby Reindeer, so I gave it a chance.
+
+Also just started watching Vox Machina S4, I’ve missed Grog!
+
+Games
+
+ • Subnautica 2 (initial early access) (2026) – I missed the terrors of the
+ depth! It’s pretty similar to the original, but it got some new tricks.
+ Looking forward to the next releases and more story!
+
+I’m currently playing 007 First Light on PC (Linux FTW), it’s really cool!
+Also, they just announced a new God of War, God of War Laufey, it looks
+awesome!
+
+Books
+
+I’m currently listening to Platform Decay and The Martian.
+
+🌐 Links
+
+ • [15]Ascetic Computing – Fantastic blogpost! I had never heard of the term
+ “Ascetic” before, and this really resonates with me.
+ • [16]The social contract of writing – Do the work.
+ • [17]No one actually wants simplicity – Complexity bad.
+ • [18]Can we have the day off? – Yes, please!
+ • [19]Don’t ask to ask, just ask – No hello…
+ • [20]Going back to inconvenience – We need to do stuff ourselves!
+ • [21]Why I Don’t Vibe Code – An excellent take! I want to think myself, and
+ not the computer. LLMs still have their use, but I agree that we use it too
+ much, we need to exercise our muscles ourselves.
+ • [22]Geography is four-dimensional – This makes perfect sense!
+ • [23]I spent my whole career building passive income – > Write when you
+ don’t feel like it. Work out when it’s easier to skip. Do your taxes
+ instead of postponing again. Go outside when you’d rather stay in.
+ • [24]Protect Your Shed – I agree with the author. Doing stuff in your “shed”
+ will make you a better developer and coworker overall, you get more reps
+ in, and you get to apply what you’ve learned both at work and at home.
+ • [25]“People who don’t use AI will be left behind” – Let’s leave behind the
+ people who keep saying this!
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+[15] https://ratfactor.com/ascetic-computing
+[16] https://jola.dev/posts/the-social-contract-of-writing
+[17] https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/no-one-actually-wants-simplicity/
+[18] https://mlsu.io/posts/day-off/
+[19] https://dontasktoask.com/
+[20] https://kjelsrud.dev/blog/going-back-to-inconvenience/
+[21] https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code
+[22] https://sive.rs/4d
+[23] https://dariusforoux.com/i-spent-my-whole-career-building-passive-income-heres-what-i-got-wrong/
+[24] https://dylanbutler.dev/blog/protect-your-shed/
+[25] https://migrainebrain.bearblog.dev/people-who-dont-use-ai-will-be-left-behind/
+[26] https://timharek.no/tags/recently/
+[27] mailto:[email protected]?subject=RE:%20May%202026
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+On sleepmaxxing, beef-only diets, political hysteria, and the lost art of being
+reasonable
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+
+For all we’re obsessed with wellness, we’re not well, are we?
+
+It’s not that we care too much; caring is good, and conviction is good, and
+discipline is good etc etc etc. Wanting to improve your life, your body, your
+work, your politics, your relationships, your finances, your mornings, your
+sleep, your habits, your dinner, your sense of meaning, all of that is fine.
+
+I’ll grant it.
+
+The sickness that concerns me is that everything has become so very totalizing.
+
+Nothing is allowed to be small anymore. Nothing is allowed to be moderate,
+partial, ordinary, seasonal, boring, or just good enough. Every preference must
+become an identity, every habit must become a protocol, every disagreement must
+become a moral emergency, every meal must become a philosophy, every viral post
+or breaking news item must become a referendum on civilization, every feeling
+must become a public performance, every hobby must become a monetized personal
+brand, and every single decision must be optimized, defended, aestheticized,
+and turned into something approximating Von Clausewitz’s total war.
+
+You can’t just go to bed earlier - you have to sleepmaxx.
+
+You can’t just eat a balanced diet - you have to eliminate seed oils, and track
+your glucose, fear vegetables and consume nothing but beef, drink raw milk, and
+talk about “ancestral living” and “blue zones” on your longevity TikTok.
+
+And of course, you can’t just exercise. You have to train like a tactical
+athlete, buy recovery wearables, plunge yourself into ice, supplement like a
+racehorse, and describe walking as “zone two.”
+
+And of course, you can’t just disagree with someone’s politics. You have to
+decide they’re either a fascist, a communist, a groomer, a traitor, a
+neoliberal shill, a terrorist sympathizer, or a brainwashed NPC.
+
+You can’t just dislike a movie, a celebrity, a book, a brand, a podcast, a
+tweet, a hairstyle, a product launch, a parenting choice, or someone’s annoying
+opinion.
+
+You have to turn it into a statement about the death of culture.
+
+Everyone is bloody exhausted and bloody exhausting; and somehow, the solution
+offered everywhere is to become more extreme. More intense. More pure. More
+optimized. More committed. More certain. More aligned with the right tribe.
+More hostile to the wrong tribe. More suspicious of ordinary pleasure. More
+contemptuous of ordinary compromise.
+
+Well, here’s my radical position:
+
+Just be normal about things.
+
+That’s it.
+
+Be normal, and opt out of the deranged belief that the only way to take
+something seriously is to take it to the most extreme possible conclusion.
+
+Normal is the condition that makes meaning possible. A normal diet works fine
+without a manifesto. A normal sleep schedule doesn’t need a name ending in
+“maxxing.” A normal political view allows for uncertainty, tradeoffs, and the
+possibility that your opponents might be wrong rather than the evil descendants
+of Satan and Satre themselves. A normal reaction to the news is to be concerned
+and to want more information - not to succumb to immediate emotional
+combustion. A normal life has habits and preferences and inconsistencies and
+repairs and occasional contradictions.
+
+That’s what makes it all a life.
+
+Part of the problem is that “taking it too far” is highly legible, in a way
+that moderation simply isn’t. Extremism photographs and posts well. It gives
+people a script, and it creates instant belonging. If you’re “all in” on
+something, anything, people know what to do with you. You’re carnivore. You’re
+anti-seed-oil. You’re doing hustle culture. You’re trad. You’re poly. You’re
+antiwork. You’re 995ing. You’re pro-AI. You’re anti-AI. You’re sober. You’re
+feral. You’re an accelerationist. You’re post-left. You’re in founder mode.
+You’re living a soft life. You’re a doomer. You’re based. You’re cringe. You’re
+whatever the algorithm currently finds most useful as a sorting mechanism.
+
+But if you say, “I try to eat pretty well, but I try not to be weird about it,”
+there’s just nowhere for that to go, and nowhere for the world to put you. It
+doesn’t polarize, recruit or inflame. It doesn’t invite a pile-on, or signal
+total allegiance. It doesn’t make strangers feel either validated or threatened
+- the two things left that seem to make the world go round.
+
+Platforms don’t reward “normal.” In pursuit of profit, they reward mania,
+purity, escalation, and novelty. They reward the person who says the thing with
+absolute certainty and maximum contempt, who can turn a minor observation into
+a civilizational diagnosis - the man who has no off-switch, no sense of
+proportion, and no respect for the idea that some things are not that deep.
+
+And because we live inside these systems for hours a day, we keep confusing
+their idiotic, base incentives for reality.
+
+But most people don’t need a biohacking protocol.
+
+They need to stop scrolling in bed and get as many hours of sleep as their
+schedule allows.
+
+Most people don’t need to become zealots about nutrition. They need protein,
+fiber, vegetables, water, fewer candy bars, and a less hysterical relationship
+with their lunch.
+
+Most people don’t need a complete ideological conversion. They need to read
+more than one source, stop confusing vibes with facts, and admit that
+complicated problems are - in fact - complicated.
+
+Most people don’t need to turn every social conflict into therapy language,
+legal language, war language, or liberation language. They need to talk like
+adults, apologize when they’re wrong, set boundaries without staging a press
+conference, and let small things be small things.
+
+Most people don’t need to go “all in” on every trend, every cause, every
+discourse, every outrage, every self-improvement system, every productivity
+framework, every moral panic, every luxury, every fear.
+
+They need a life with enough structure to support them and enough looseness to
+let them breathe.
+
+The culture of extremity flatters us by telling us that intensity = virtue. If
+you care about your health, you must care in a way that consumes your
+personality. If you care about justice, you must be angry all the time. If you
+care about success, you must sacrifice rest, friendship, and dignity.If you
+care about the planet, you must perform guilt on command. If you care about
+your body, you must monitor it like a hostile asset. If you care about your
+mind, you must turn every feeling into an analytics dashboard.
+
+There are many things worth caring about.
+
+But the more something is worth caring about, the more dangerous extremism
+becomes.
+
+Being weird about shit - extremism in all its forms - might burn hot, and it
+might perform well, but it always collapses.
+
+Being normal about shit compounds.
+
+Someone who eats normally for twenty years will likely do better than someone
+who cycles between puritanical restriction and indulgent rebellion. Someone who
+sleeps decently most nights will likely feel more rested than someone who turns
+sleep into a neurotic performance and then panics every time their watch gives
+them a bad score. Someone who reads widely, updates slowly, and resists
+political possession will likely understand the world better than someone who
+receives every event as ammunition for a pre-existing narrative. Someone who
+can have an ordinary disagreement without annihilating the other will likely
+have better relationships than someone who treats every conflict as evidence of
+abuse, betrayal, or ideological contamination.
+
+Extremism might give you a feeling like control, but it’s usually a signal of
+possession. You think you’ve chosen a system, but pretty soon the system is
+choosing for you. You no longer ask, “What do I think?” You ask, “What does
+someone like me think?” You no longer ask, “What does this situation need?” You
+ask, “How do I perform my allegiance?” You no longer notice reality, so much as
+you complain when reality either fails to confirm, or threatens your identity.
+
+This is how people are made ridiculous.
+
+The seed oil wanker can’t eat dinner at a friend’s house without making
+everyone aware of their purity hierarchy. The political obsessive can’t watch a
+natural disaster unfold without immediately sorting victims and responders into
+ideological categories. The productivity extremist can’t enjoy a walk unless
+it’s contributing to a measurable objective. The social media addict can’t
+experience a private emotion without imagining its public framing. The wellness
+convert can’t be tired without interpreting it as a hormonal, spiritual,
+dietary, environmental, or civilizational crisis.
+
+Sometimes tired just means tired.
+
+Sometimes hungry just means hungry.
+
+Sometimes disagreement just means disagreement.
+
+Sometimes a bad day is just a bad day.
+
+Sometimes a mistake is just a mistake.
+
+Sometimes a preference is just a preference.
+
+Sometimes a joke is just a joke, and sometimes it’s just bad.
+
+Sometimes a person is annoying without being an existential threat to Western
+Values.
+
+Sometimes the news is upsetting without you becoming catatonic for the rest of
+the day.
+
+Sometimes your body is asking for a ham sandwich, not a new ideology.
+
+Proportion is the ability to respond to things at the right scale. Not
+everything deserves your whole nervous system, and not everything deserves a
+boycott, a confession, a thread, a pivot, a diagnosis, a feud, a rebrand, a
+protocol, a purge, or a ten-year plan.
+
+Some things deserve a shrug.
+
+Some things deserve a nap.
+
+Some things deserve a private conversation.
+
+Some things deserve a week of thought before you speak up.
+
+Some things deserve attention, but not obsession.
+
+The internet hates proportion because proportion slows the machine down. A
+proportionate person is harder to manipulate. They don’t instantly buy the
+supplement, join the mob, share the outrage, adopt the label, or panic at the
+headline. They have a buffer between stimulus and response. They can say,
+“Maybe,” “Not enough information,” “This seems overstated,” “I’m not
+convinced,” “I don’t need to have a take on this,” and, most dangerously of
+all, “I’m going to log off.”
+
+A lot of what passes for conviction is poor emotional regulation. A lot of what
+passes for discipline is anxiety. A lot of what passes for moral clarity is
+group belonging. A lot of what passes for being informed is being repeatedly
+agitated by people who profit from repeated agitation.
+
+If the house is on fire, go right ahead and scream. But if every room you enter
+feels like it’s on fire, check whether you’ve just trained yourself to smell
+smoke everywhere.
+
+The point is to stop living as though maximum intensity is the same as maximum
+truth.
+
+A normal person can still have principles. In fact, they probably have better
+principles, because theirs aren’t constantly being rewritten by adrenaline.
+They can oppose cruelty without becoming cruel, and they can pursue excellence
+without despising rest. They can care about food without fearing either dinner,
+dessert or the noble tradition of the cold pizza midnight snack. They can care
+about politics without surrendering their entire personality to politics. They
+can be ambitious without turning every hour into a transaction. They can be
+online without letting the timeline assign them a worldview.
+
+It sounds modest, but it’s hard. We are constantly bombarded with a thousand
+and one tiny invitations to madness. The invitation to escalate; the invitation
+to simplify; the invitation to belong through hatred; the invitation to turn
+insecurity into doctrine; the invitation to convert ordinary discomfort into
+emergency; the invitation to treat your own life as content; and the invitation
+to substitute intensity for depth.
+
+Eventually, you have to draw a line in the sand and start saying no to the
+dopamine hit you get from going too far.
+
+You’ll likely disappoint the folks who want you to be more extreme - because
+your extremism would validate theirs. The zealot wants company, and the
+obsessive wants a mirror.
+
+The algorithm wants fresh meat.
+
+The mob wants your voice added to the chant.
+
+The brand wants you to feel deficient.
+
+The guru wants your uncertainty. .
+
+To be normal about things is to preserve a private center that doesn’t get
+annexed by every passing demand. I can care about this without becoming it. I
+can improve this without worshiping it. I can be concerned without being
+consumed. I can participate without surrendering judgment. I can change my mind
+without staging a conversion narrative. I can be imperfect without making
+imperfection my brand. I can be serious without being unbearable.
+
+A normal life has room for contradiction.
+
+You can care about nutrition and eat cake at a birthday party. You can care
+about sleep and stay up late sometimes. You can care about politics and have
+friends who don’t share your every worldview. You can care about your work and
+still close your laptop when your kid wants you to play Uno. You can be
+spiritually curious and still be skeptical of people selling enlightenment
+subscriptions. You can be disciplined and still be fun. You can be principled
+and still be kind.
+
+This shouldn’t sound radical. None of it should sound radical. It only does
+because our culture has become so stupidly binary.
+
+We keep building identities out of overcorrections. One group is reckless about
+health, so another becomes hysterical about purity. One group ignores politics,
+so another makes politics metabolize every human interaction. One group
+glorifies workaholism, so another insists ambition is inherently pathological.
+One group pathologizes every emotion, another denies emotions matter at all.
+Back and forth, forever, everyone reacting to the worst version of everyone
+else.
+
+Stop letting the most annoying person in the opposite camp design your life.
+
+You don’t have to become the inverse of someone else’s stupidity.
+
+You can just be normal about things. You can live a life where you don’t need
+to make every decision under the pressure of symbolic meaning.
+
+It puts the bar where a human being can reach it repeatedly without becoming
+deranged.
+
+Refusing to be yanked around by every discourse preserves dignity. Refusing to
+overfit your life to trends preserves intelligence. Habits that don’t require
+witnesses build strength. Letting some things pass without turning them into
+proof of your worldview is maturity.
+
+Just be normal about things.
+
+Eat food that makes you feel decent. Sleep enough. Move your body. Read things
+that challenge your priors. Be kind to people in real life. Don’t outsource
+your politics to the angriest person on your feed. Don’t make your body a
+battleground for someone else’s theory. Don’t confuse self-improvement with
+self-surveillance. Don’t confuse certainty with wisdom. Don’t confuse being a
+dick with courage.
+
+Have beliefs. Have standards. Have ambition. Have taste. Have boundaries. Have
+causes. Have things you refuse to tolerate.
+
+But don’t give every part of yourself to every fight.
+
+Most things need attention, not obsession.
+
+Care, but keep your head.
+
+Rest, but don’t turn it into a competitive sport.
+
+Eat, but don’t join a cult.
+
+Think, but don’t let politics eat your entire personality.
+
+React, but not to everything, and not at full volume.
+
+Learn what deserves your whole self and what deserves a normal, proportionate,
+adult response.
+
+At the very least - at the bare minimum - it might make us all less annoying on
+Twitter.
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+A normal life has room for contradiction."
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