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Economics, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Psychology | Musings

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Quantification: How NOT to make the most of your life.

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The em dash being solely associated with AI-generated content is truly one of life’s biggest burdens.

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Watching ‘day in the life’ videos → convincing yourself you can be as productive as a one-off, well-curated YouTuber day → thinking you’ve actually done something productive.

Rinse and repeat.

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Boeing is a really good case study for causation ≠ correlation.

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My Way or the Highway: A look at the least nuanced society the world has ever seen:

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Without being specific to this post, I think sweeping statements like this can sometimes erase individuality.

There’s rarely—if ever—a one-size-fits-all guidebook to life, especially when so much of it is shaped by personal experience.

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people do get quite salty after i break up with them however. don't necessarily act great after that. staying friends w ur exes is a myth kids

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@divya_venn This is a pretty succinct way to put it. Thought-provoking, really.

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Here's a little sneak peek:

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Touch Grass — But Use Your Phone. Normalising misconceived notions to live a practical life.

Link in bio/replies.

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"We can deny it all we want — I’m self-sufficient, I don’t need a phone! — but you’d be lying to yourself."

🔗 In bio, and: https://t.co/o4d1exqAQS

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Touch Grass — But Use Your Phone. Normalising misconceived notions to live a practical life.

Link in bio/replies.

[Instinctive 💭 @Instinctive_is]

The above is what I meant when writing, "If you can become aware of the miraculousness that I [a pencil] symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing."

~ Leonard Read

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“One must imagine Sisyphus happy”? Perhaps. But that boulder looks heavy, if you ask me.

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https://t.co/plY1rX3TG0 👈

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Link in replies, but here's a little teaser:

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Nostalgia: Holding onto a past that will never be our future. Now live — link in bio/replies.

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@Patrician_fpl Thank you, much appreciated!

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Nostalgia: Holding onto a past that will never be our future. Now live — link in bio/replies.

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As time passes, the more things change — and the more we want them to stay the same.

But that’s just it: things won’t stay the same.

You won’t know what comes of it until you make it to the other side — and that’s the hard part. So you reminisce.

Ah, what could’ve been?

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I’ve started another newsletter/website, along with a Twitter account — @Instinctive_is — to talk about psychology, economics, and philosophy. I’ll be diving deeper into the human psyche, and sharing musings from my life.

Link at @Instinctive_is and below this tweet. Enjoy ❤️