Category: Open Journal
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Life at the farm can run together if you’re not careful. It’s why I do daily journal entries, even when I don’t have much to say. I’ve had to release a lot of expectations for what I can accomplish in my currently frustratingly diminished state. This has been the worst spring I think I’ve ever…
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Midnight thought: an actually useful dream where it came up that style should serve as a tone setter in writing not a template. For years I’ve been trying to run a variety of devices in my work to illustrate a breadth of knowledge, skill, and talent when I should just be getting outworks and not…
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In her post, Letters Written In Winter Kept To Ourselves, Emily talks about how she’s spent this winter trying to figure out what to do with the rest of her life. I’ve done something similar, but in my case, I don’t think that I’m looking so much for an answer, but figuring out what questions…
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Had a bizarre question in mind to start the day: which Star Trek ship is most beautiful? And it isn’t necessarily the original Enterprise. But that sort of deep dive isn’t really in my purview today. There’s content out there on that subject already but I have my own ideas how to aesthetically judge spacecraft…
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This is from September 2025, but I’m intentionally posting it now because it’s relevant. Criticism is useful, yes. The discussion is helpful. But when the product is so bad that trying to critique it makes my brain hurt, you have to go to a different level of analysis. I’m not even going to go into…
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Woke up thinking about better frameworks for an intellectually honest life. I think the number one thing is handwriting as much as possible. I think typing is okay, too, if you just allow yourself to flow without distractions. While I don’t see myself going to a Neil Gaiman level absolute devotion to the idea of…