Cozying up to the Metacrisis - Erik Trautman
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Beginning the journey from the sidelines into the metacrisis so we can build a brighter future for our children.
Starting in 2023, I shifted my consumption of information towards a deliberately sparse diet so I could focus my attention on cultivating the inner creative who had been underexpressed through my many years of academic achievement, career advancement and building startups. I shut down all the newsletters, podcasts and scrolling that had previously generated a constant hum of mental background noise and I cloaked myself in the resulting silence with glee. It was a delicious window for self growth which brought me on a necessary journey of love, grief, connection and catharsis about which I̵
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