SELF-ESTEEM 101

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Everything that you want you already are.

Oct 9 • 

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You're shaped by what you pay attention to

What you look at is what you worship, what you worship is what you become.

Oct 1 • 

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September 2025

Oh—Exuberance!

Psychoanalysts say that the first trauma we all experience is the act of being pushed out of the womb without our consent.

Sep 26 • 

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You're overspending because you lack values

Overconsumption is a spiritual problem, not a money problem. Lessons about desire from "Spirited Away".

Sep 9 • 

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August 2025

What Should Remain Hidden?

Enchantment is shy

Published on Inkwell • Aug 27

Goodbye, August

How to enjoy the next seven days. Also, I'm gifting students a one-year subscription.

Aug 25 • 

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How to look someone in the eyes

Eye contact is a luminous crossing where two people meet, make galactic intercourse, then recoil, changed.

Aug 20 • 

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Confessions of a shy but talented girl

I feel underestimated by the world, and worse, they might be right because I haven't done enough to prove otherwise.

Aug 15 • 

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How do you know they're THE ONE?

I'M ENGAGED ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Aug 12 • 

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How lucky are you allowed to get?

What to do when you feel like life is stupidly great

Aug 5 • 

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Artificial intelligence is making you genuinely stupid

Do the hard thing. There are no shortcuts to excellence. And, a call for the revival of academia.

Aug 1 • 

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July 2025

Diary of a people watcher, pt. 2

Someone called this series "literary street photography". Here's another one, on friends and lovers:

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