Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
Anxiety, of which worry is a component, is essentially just unfocused fear.
Arthur C. Brooks • How to Worry Less and Be Happier
Since 2016 I have been exploring this idea and have made many attempts to explain it in different essays. None of these attempts have fully captured it, but I think the idea is so important and so explains certain features of our world that I keep trying again and again. In this piece I want to briefly outline how I arrived at this idea and... See more
Moral Ecosystems: My Big Idea
I love Shorin admitting that capturing this idea fully might be an impossibility but he’s going to try anyways
Global Warming Is Influencing Global Timekeeping
scripps.ucsd.edu
You see, I have always found it difficult to understand that in fact one can only be oneself. Who else could you be? Changeability and hypocrisy and performance are parts of who we are. And what is empirical reality, anyway?
Matthew J. C. Clark • Bjarki, Not Bjarki
December 6 at 18:17
gilest.orgI love the simplicity, vibe, and length (most importantly) of this newsletter.
In that era, people could even make their own little social networks, so the conversations and content you found on an online forum or discussion were as likely to have been hosted by the efforts of one lone creator than to have come from some giant corporate conglomerate. It was a more democratized internet, and while the world can’t return to... See more
Anil Dash • The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
Mental health is serious, ugly, and deadly—yet we’re seeing it co-opted by brands and agencies alike in the name of thinly veiled marketing ploys and social media kudos.