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Polypragmosyne and making more decisions

You can just do... many things Polypragmosyne and making more decisions Hyde May 30, 2025 373 12 52 Share I don’t remember when I first encountered the now infamous phrase, “You can just do things.” but I do remember the way everyone used it nonstop as a kind of epigraph after an achievement or as a passepartout for any possible problem that didn’t have an immediately obvious solution. It is great advice, or rather, an advice wrapper that hides a simple yet impractical observation. On the one hand, YCJDT acts like a universal permission giver to those who, for reasons unknown other than the cu

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