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Friendly Weirdo Homesteaders
Thoughts on finding and befriending your people, and finding land on which to live
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Adventures in Traditional Chinese Medicine
I love Eight Treasure Porridge. Eat it daily and live long. Also, I am selling handmade block prints online! (Link to store at end of post)
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Things Are Happening in the Midwest
Thinking about my trip through the Midwest in 2023, solidarity networks, and Lifehouse, Adam Greenfield's new book
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What Do You Want to Know About Going Off-Grid?
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Magical Thinking Is Good
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Finding Your Karass
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Collapse Now, and Avoid the Rush
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Living in Community = Doing the Shadow Work 👤
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"Go Find the Others"
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Protocols for Living
Protocols are systems for doing a certain *thing*. There are protocols for health, diet, personal finance, etc. Here's some of the ones I use.
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Hello in There
Reactivating this thing. Tell me what you'd like to read about! Plus: my favorite Substacks, and teasing out the 'why' in 'why write?'
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This is a post about building software
AI too. You've been warned ;)
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Five Cool Things #4
Bluesky, Smog sky, and "the psychedelic age of AI"
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The "Working in Tech Lifecycle"
And the "dev to woodworker pipeline"
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Are We Spending Too Much Time Online?
Also: how much screen time is too much?, is working from home making you depressed too?, and more.
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Some Thoughts on AI Chatbots
Plus: I am looking for a job! (ft/remote, ideally)
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Things That Should Exist
Things That Should Exist is a newsletter about belonging, "infrastructures of care", and building collective power, from the lens of a clinically-depressed, idealistic introvert.
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