This is one of my favourite essays because it completely changed the way I thought about my own skills. Namely, it taught me that a good way to evaluate my own skills is to examine the gap that exists between my…
For all the unsettling or violent or dangerous SCPs on the wiki, my favourite still remains SCP-348. I teared up a little the first time I read this: http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-348 It's a ceramic bowl with "thinking of…
If you have the funds and you're certain you don't want to be at your current role, I couldn't recommend it more. It was perhaps the best thing I've ever done for myself. I came out of that period not only with a…
I'm surprised this article didn't mention Worlds(.)com or even Second Life. For those unaware, Worlds(.)com is an old virtual chat platform from 1995 that still exists today. I imagine it was a lot like VRChat back in…
Came here specifically wanting to post these links! Seconding this recommendation; I've never come across a single content creator that manages to tie together so many disparate concepts into a cohesive whole the way…
"Therapists build their insights on top of huge amounts of biographical information that they gather in intense, concentrated sessions." Agreed with all of your post, I think this is the most crucial point here.…
Not OP, but as someone who holds this view (who also used to engage in the practice): a lot of armchair psychoanalysis is based less on a genuine understanding of the other person's life and circumstances, and more on…
This is one of my favourite essays because it completely changed the way I thought about my own skills. Namely, it taught me that a good way to evaluate my own skills is to examine the gap that exists between my…
For all the unsettling or violent or dangerous SCPs on the wiki, my favourite still remains SCP-348. I teared up a little the first time I read this: http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-348 It's a ceramic bowl with "thinking of…
If you have the funds and you're certain you don't want to be at your current role, I couldn't recommend it more. It was perhaps the best thing I've ever done for myself. I came out of that period not only with a…
I'm surprised this article didn't mention Worlds(.)com or even Second Life. For those unaware, Worlds(.)com is an old virtual chat platform from 1995 that still exists today. I imagine it was a lot like VRChat back in…
Came here specifically wanting to post these links! Seconding this recommendation; I've never come across a single content creator that manages to tie together so many disparate concepts into a cohesive whole the way…
"Therapists build their insights on top of huge amounts of biographical information that they gather in intense, concentrated sessions." Agreed with all of your post, I think this is the most crucial point here.…
Not OP, but as someone who holds this view (who also used to engage in the practice): a lot of armchair psychoanalysis is based less on a genuine understanding of the other person's life and circumstances, and more on…