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Unformed Thoughts by Amit Gawande.

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

This morning is a bit of a rambling post where I talk about the fact that 2023 is our 10th running of a Blaugust Event.

One core difference between the fediverse and the AT Protocol seems to be that AT decouples many key building blocks – identity, moderation, ranking algorithms, even your own data to some deg…

I recently listened to the and found it pretty upsetting. I found that Johnny brought up a lot of problematic ableist statements that I feel didn't get ...

I am reading and hearing a lot of discourse about AI, machine learning, and more specifically, ChatGPT. It seems like a lot of people have a lot of opinions and things to say, and, like ChatGPT itself, they seem to be often wrong but never in doubt1. From what I can tell it seems like a lot of it is noise (generally when people make blanket statements about AI being bad and dangerous) but there is some real signal (generally when people use more precise verbiage, detailed use cases, and less sensationalized/more nuanced thoughts and conclusions such as potential for bias at a large scale with large language models and generative AI causing harm2).

It’s a miracle to me how deep piercing raw pain can become something bearable. An echo. That we can heal from that devastation, move forward. I wouldn’t say move on because I don’t think we leave it behind, exactly. But we move forward. And over time, the pain can lessen and cease to be the absolute center […]

The actual factual events are such a small part of the story. Everything else is interpretation.It’s never too late to change a story. Derek Sivers, The past is not true A few weeks ago I had a conversation with a distant family member. And this family member told me a story, which they believe, about me. […]

I had another health episode this past week after our penang trip. I have a habit of measuring my heart rate and heart rate variability every morning when I wake up to test the physiological stress...

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I’ve been an avid reader since I learned to read, which was early in my life. I like to read, and talk about books, and write about books, and recommend books. And I like to hear from other people about books. Lately I’ve been thinking about how much talking-about-reading is packaged in a sense of […]

The web I want is powered by passion, not money. The web I want doesn't need to ask for permission to track me because they know that tracking me is …

I like being the dumbest person in the room. Being the dumbest person in the room means I am about to learn some interesting shit. I can listen, I can ask questions, and I’ll know more when I walk out of here than when I walked in. I used to be afraid to reveal when […]

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a personal review of "A general theory of love"

I m afraid you ve been seeing a lot of sponsored posts and not enough posts from me lately, so I thought I d try to explain why.

on making a new contact me page - and web interactions that feel more human, real, and imaginative.

A plea for us to get back to building websites that can do normal website things.

My anxiety is a low hum or an angry buzz.

I have had Rubenerd’s “What is the worst advice you have received?” blog post in the list of tabs on my phone for a few days, about which I have been meaning to write. (Side note: If you have enough tabs open, Firefox on mobile shows an infinity icon instead of the tab count. Did I break physics by having too many tabs open?)

[tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of thoughts as someone who has struggled with my own existence my entire life. Though I am...

John Higgs on the decision to become a full-time writer.