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To the extent that you haven’t fully internalized one or more of these “big three”—self-love, self-trust, or agency—as part of your character, you’ll likely find this interferes with your ability to pursue whatever ideals you’ve articulated.
In Defense of Radical Self-Betterment
Gena Gorlin
First, neurogenesis probably doesn’t happen in adult humans. If it does, it’s rare, limited to a few areas, and too specific for something like LSD to affect it much. Second,
What Should We Make Of Sasha Chapin's Claim That Taking LSD Restored His Sense Of Smell After COVID?
Scott Alexander
That changed when social networking became social media around 2009, between the introduction of the smartphone and the launch of Instagram. Instead of connection—forging latent ties to people and organizations we would mostly ignore—social media offered platforms through which people could publish content as widely as possible, well beyond their networks of immediate contacts.
The Age of Social Media Is Ending
Ian Bogost
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