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Recovering roundup, 🌺 May 2026
⚡️UPDATE—THESE HAVE BEEN GIVEN AWAY⚡️
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THREAD: How do you feel about your sobriety or recovery these days? Has it changed?
Hi! If you are feeling it, can you try and respond to these questions in the comments? I’ve been working on a book on topics related to this discussion and your shares go a very long way.
[Update: If you want to respond and don’t feel com...
Why you're sorry for being sorry
On apology as architecture
Over a decade ago, when I used to send newsletters out on MailChimp, I would first send them to a friend to proof who would always strike through the first sentence or two and say something like, Sto…
One day there would be a click
On letting yourself be who you've actually become
I stopped writing here mid-February. I was supposed to take a week off to relax before a silent meditation retreat and then a trip to Jamaica to prevent a Shining situation.
How to be lost (Part 4)
Notes 15–20 of 20: How to Be Lost
This originally ran in 2022-3 as part of a series on how to live through a long transition and endless down cycle. Part 1, the intro to the series, is here. Part 2, Notes 1-8 of 20: How to Be Lost, i…
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