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Sharing art is personal
Earlier this evening I was replying to a political thread on Reddit, a site for discussion and link sharing. I carefully crafted and published my comments. Within minutes, I felt a familiar anxiety. Are people reading and liking my comments? Every few minutes I’d reload my comments to see how they were being voted upon. [...]
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“Managing Your Mind” (Gillian Butler, Tony Hope)
Amazon Link I read this book on my flight to Ukraine. I skimmed most of it. It’s a good book, but most of it is inapplicable or redundant after studying Objectivism. The book states that it should be treated like a buffet, so here are the ideas that I found interesting and unique. The rest [...]
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2010 Review, 2011 Goals
My achievements in 2010: Health: I solved all of my health problems. I studied, tested, and treated myself for my food allergies+intolerances, and my adrenal+thyroid issues. I exercised effectively. I learned to cook and travel with my diet. I slept enough. Mind: I improved myself. I read the books I wanted to (Body By Science, [...]
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The Child Goddess
Today I watched the indie movie/documentary “Catfish” (warning, mild spoilers follow), about a man tricked into believing that a fake online identity is real. My life is lived online, so the movie speaks to me powerfully. When I was a teenager, I staged a deception similar to the woman in the movie, though smaller in [...]
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Twitter: I’m on it
http://twitter.com/AdamThompson12 It will be focused on my work. I added a widget to the bottom right menu of this blog. I was convinced to try it by a post on OActivists. Here’s what I wrote there: This post has convinced me to try Twitter, finally. I’m a software developer with some interest in social media, but [...]
Summary of my health
Introduction In August of 2009 I became serious about improving my health. I’ve made great progress, which I’ll summarize now. I am not a medical professional, nor have I consulted one, so this is all a non-professional self-diagnosis. However, my epistemological approach is very strict, and I’m betting my life on my correct judgment. If [...]
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Purpose of this blog
Welcome My purpose here is to publish my ideas and updates about topics that interest me. I will discuss what I’m doing, knowledge I discover, ideas I have, analysis of other people’s ideas, significant events, and more. Because I have such diverse interests, this blog is strictly categorized. Readers can read and subscribe exclusively to [...]
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