flâneur

feelings are for doing stuff? - by vincent huang

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on detachment, overanalysis, etc

the past month has been the best month of 2025! i unironically believe this is due to the stroke scare detailed in my previous post. life feels like it has higher stakes, and whenever anything seems too low-stakes i either quit or intentionally dial up the temperature one (very coarse) metric i use to determine if i’m spending time in good ways is to ask myself if succeeding at the thing i’m spending time on would feel life-changing along some dimension i care about? and if the answer is no, success wouldn’t feel that different, the options are either 1) stop spending time on that thing 2)…

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