Archive - normality

Managing stress from responsibilities and uncertainty

A simple framework based on personal experience.

Jun 18 •

Assorted thoughts #1

What Spirited Away teaches us about kindness, and the problems with "neuroticism" as a personality dimension.

Jun 16 •

May 2025

Targeted gratitude journaling

When you remind yourself of the good things in life, focus on the ones that balance out your emotional trouble spots.

May 4 •

April 2025

On escaping the downward spiral in politics

When we only look for the worst in others, it makes us dumber... doesn't it?

Apr 24 •

Use the body to make the mind do what it's supposed to

Attention goes where you point. Action follows what you say. Use this on yourself or on other people.

Apr 16 •

March 2025

Unwritten rules of mathematics

What I took for granted before trying to teach a six year old

Mar 30 •

December 2024

How to teach a 9 year old programming

The way I'm doing it, anyway

Dec 25, 2024 •

October 2024

The false alarm trap

Avoiding scary things can keep you safe, but doing it too much is a prison.

Oct 23, 2024 •

September 2024

who goes to hell?

repent, ye brood of vipers.

Sep 6, 2024 •

August 2024

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