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time
noun usage time is a currency you can spend on someone, with someone, for someone. it's often devalued. (we should make that a crime.) you can steal it. you can report it stolen. you can pretend to...
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an atom: a documentary
sometimes, an atom does not want to become a molecule. the atom likes to think he's invisible, indivisible, and invincible — much to others' chagrin. being close to his buddies makes his life...
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words
words are deemed good when they do not sound bad when listened to or do not look bad in retrospect when lived by. "let's strive for the painless" came to me when the ache in my back (i was...
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what's a balding pigeon to do?
what's a balding pigeon to do? cry over the loss of his hair. figure out why he cannot cry every day. defend his children from intruders — basically every pigeon who's not wife or previously raised...
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the physics of presence
dear mrj., these are the lies i choose to believe in: the truth always wins. silence speaks louder than words when the time is right. i am omnipresent. dead people watch me from above. um, here's...
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intersection
sometimes, i don't know what i am talking about (A). other times, people don't know what i am talking about (B). we bond over the shared confusion my speech instills. here's the venn diagram...
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how to get disappointed constantly? three easy steps.
an easy to follow "how to" guide by the null prophet (subject matter expert, disappointment). set unrealistic expectations. attempt to control the uncontrollables. let your present be...
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astronauts
i've never wanted to be an astronaut. people think being one is cool. i think so too. but i cannot be cool professionally (only personally!), so i had to find cooler things like sheriff domestic,...
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the chemistry of presence
dear mrj., are you up for a discussion? does the pencil know how many pages you’ve written with it? do the pages remember the corrections you made? does the chair you sit on sigh when you shift in...
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does a tap remember?
does a tap remember who forgot to close it? does it know whose bottle it filled last? out of reach, i see it every day. does it sense all the people who passed? does it sometimes dream of crying? or...
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everyone wakes up at 7; i don't
i bought a blank notebook once. it isn’t blank anymore. i've filled pages of it with things meant to be shared with an "appropriate audience" when the time comes. but the time never comes....
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how to take a break from a break? three easy steps.
the null prophet's guide to efficiency. step 1: pretend there is no break. question the entire hecking existence of the concept. ask (out loud): “what the [duck] even is a break?” if you manage to...
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the pants
the other day, i saw a person wearing pants. i know it's super common to see someone wearing pants if you are in the same environment as me—where wearing jeans is frowned upon and can even lead to...
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that special day
my shoes have been with me through thick and thin: heavy dirt, heavy rain, heavy everything. when i had a soul, they didn't. now that they have two, i don't. the soul is the sole constant shared among...
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the mathematics of presence
dear mrj., i’m starting with an apology—my memory for first meetings is terrible :) please don’t take it personally. it’s just the way my brain is wired. this is a continuation of something from pages...
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time machines
my feature phone doesn't compete for my attention. maybe that is why i love it. that, and the battery life. and the size. and the fact that it charges stupidly fast. and because it has no app store,...
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firelighters
once upon a time (and space), there lived people who believed they were the best in the world—mostly because they had very, very firey ambitions. what they never quite realised was that their world...
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to love a polar bear
dedicated to all our polar bears. dear universe, polar bears have made me aware of the following so far: you can only love a polar bear if the polar bear loves you back. it is very hard to calm down...
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i still want to install truecaller in a way that doesn't upload my contacts to t.c.'s servers
this is from when i was a week younger (and so full of wanting to install truecaller on an android VM on my pc). now that i am a week older (and consequently, wiser!) — i still want to do so, but now...
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