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I understand why people take refuge in hyperbole to make their pain legible. But you can’t trick yourself out of feeling that pain through terminology alone.

Love Bombing, Gaslighting, and the Problem With Pathologising Dating Talk

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On the land-use compatibility front, zoning is a poor substitute for directly regulating the externalities that upset people, missing subtle differences between land uses while leaving the borders of districts exposed and shifting the burden of unwanted uses onto the less affluent.

Arbitrary Lines

M. Nolan Gray

The more imaginative and curious you are, the more diverse your interests, and the higher your standards and commitment to perfection, the more difficult you will likely find it to switch from divergence mode into convergence mode. It’s painful to cut off options and choose one path over another. There is a kind of creative grief in watching an idea that you know is full of potential get axed from a script or a story. This is what makes creative work challenging.

Building a Second Brain

Tiago Forte

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