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Reason is an underrated way to be authentic

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John Stuart Mill, notetaking, rationality, and emotion

Orhan Pamuk’s notebook This is the third part of a series but can be read independently. Part 1 was titled “Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process” and part 2 “Becoming perceptive.” In August, I wrote a post about how things that have turned out well in my life have tended to follow the same design process. In one sentence: they grew from small playful experiments that swelled into something more complex. I talked about this in terms of form-context-fit. A form (a glove, let’s say) is good if it fits the context it is designed for (the hand). Hence: to…

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