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There were 45 issues of this Microprinciples newsletter in 2025. You might vaguely remember one about a glove, or an experiment in reverse advice (which didn’t land), on an earnest use of the term “poppycock” (which did). What a year.
Not...
To learn you must discern and
To discern requires a perverse ability:
To babysit two opposing ideas in your mind’s playpen
And to keep them cooing and gentle.
It’s the entire concept of comedy:
Follow a well-accepted insight
With...
No two people will agree on everything.
Even twins can share an impassible gulf.
He’s obsessed with coffee; she insists on tea—
And a road is closed between them.
For others, the gulf can be even wider and deeper.
It’s more than “r...
“I know that travel is valuable because most knowledge can’t be written down.”
–Sasha Chapin
You could go to the Amazon rainforest.
Or you could read about it in a book.
Do you think there’s a difference?
Your body already knows th...
“Talk about what you have written, by all means, but do not read from it while the work is in progress. Every gratification procured in this way will slacken your tempo.”
–Walter Benjamin
Someone asks, “How is your thing going?”
You...
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