Daily Archives: August 24, 2025

The Covenant of Ashwood (8-24-25)

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Restoring Quality Of Life

Just under my friendly amiable surface, is a default setting where I instinctively try to do that which maximizes attention. To navigate life without humiliating myself constantly, I have to transcend that default setting into one where I make choices … Continue reading

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I love watching sports but I don’t want to waste my time

One thing I do to improve my quality of life while watching sports is to make it a group experience. Another thing I can do is adopt some useful frames on what I’m watching. I particularly watch a lot of … Continue reading

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The Half Life Of Limerence

In my experience, the half-life of an erotic relationship is six weeks. ChatGPT says: Six weeks tracks with what relationship psychologists often describe as the “limerence phase” — when novelty, infatuation, and erotic charge are at their peak before the … Continue reading

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L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science by Stephen P. Turner & Lawrence Nichols

ChatGPT gave me the highlights of this recent essay: Turner and Nichols’s piece on L. J. Henderson is juicy for your project. It cuts right to the themes we’ve been tracking about expertise, authority, and the social construction of “what … Continue reading

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