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every year I write a post for the new year. this year I wrote about wishing 2026 to be a boring year, and why true boredom is precious:

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may 2026 be a boring year

Last year I wished for an uneventful year. This year I would like to take it a step further by wishing for a boring year. I was severely allergic t...

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made a post looking back at 2025:

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looking back at 2025

For previous years I tend to ensure I publish this post on the very last day of the year, but this time around I decided it didn't matter. I t...

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every now and then some readers will write to tell me my rss feed is broken — the fact that they even noticed in a very noisy world like this… someone wrote to ask me if i was okay because they thought i stopped writing. it is quite amazing anyone would care. (my website is buggy for a while: a post has relationships to many other items, the wordpress object keeps being rendered flat instead of having depths…i don’t know how to fix it for now except i keep emptying the pods cache manually.)

wrote about my fascination with human self and its capacity for change

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the human self

A few weeks ago I started to learn how to play the piano again, after an 8-year hiatus. I am at a point now where I am practicing it whenever I get...

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nowadays each time i fix a bug on my website i write a note in #obsidian so i can refer back to it when a similar thing happens again

wrote about trying to learn the piano after a 8 year hiatus – how and why I'm approaching it differently, how this is only possible because I've aged enough to perceive myself differently:

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teaching an old dog new tricks

A couple of weeks ago I decided that I would try to stop interacting with social media before 5pm. The influence social media had on me was not ove...

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i’m trying to learn how to play the piano again after maybe 7 years, and it is extremely mentally exhausting for me. maybe i haven’t worked out my brain in a long while.

documented some of the more unconventional part-time/temporary jobs i've had, and how they impacted me: i.e. clinic assistant, insurance claims assistant, manga rental shop assistant:

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unconventional jobs I had

The other day we were at the dentist and my partner mentioned that the dentist wanted to give her a muscle relaxant but she couldn't remember ...

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wrote about how i belatedly realised the availability of my phone and the speed it enables negatively impacted my capacity to tolerate slowness, and how as i age i realised there is a different dimension of gratification that I want to seek, the sort of gratification that is the outcome of going slow and long:

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a different dimension of gratification

I think I was fortunate to have been born in the early 80s. I had my first computer at 15, a bit later than most of my peers. Before then, I had to...

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