- An Existential Guide to: Making Friends is one of those bits of internet that is actual writing. One that you come across, snack on bit by bit like a Snickers you’re hiding from your kids. It’s a bit of terribly good writing with quips about friendship like, “They do not scale. If a relationship comes with a Patreon tier list, it’s not friendship, it’s artisanal loneliness in monthly instalments,” and “You’ve become a spreadsheet,” they say, and you laugh because your breath smells like pivot tables.”
- Being alone in a quiet house
- Deadguy: Killing Music - Do you want to see an amazing band burnout and go from a mere gut punch honest expression of dissatisfaction with the world to then imploding all before your very eyes? Lately I’ve been getting into rock history documentaries, but this takes an obscure band who your favourite bands all love but you never heard of, and then traces what could only be called their journey of spite and disappointment, and yet they laugh the whole way. Well worth using a VPN which you will need to use since it appears to only work in the US.
- Six Degrees of Wikipedia can help you swim through random connections of things you might wish you never knew.
- Folding a fitting sheet is one of those things like losing weight or accepting the state of the world with grace. You look at it, see it there, and then just scrunch it up and shove it as deftly as you can into a drawer. But the implications of this are clearly massive, and of course 1000 people in Edinburgh watched some Australian guy fold a fitted sheet. I would. So would you. Because nobody believes, like losing weight, that it’s actually possible. Nobody knows how the fuck to do this and if they did they would just run it in your face. Oooh, look what I can do. Thought you weren’t shit already when you woke up today did you? Well think again bucko.
- Potatoes
- Not using Obsidian, not because I don’t like the flexibility of this text editing software with a cult following, but precisely because of the flexibility. It primarily helped me to fiddle with things a ton more than write.
- Watching documentaries because learning about real life without having to live it is way easier from a couch
- If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy? (Bryan Caplan)
- This article about a therapist chatting with Claude
