Johnathan Dodson
@createchtivity
Johnathan Dodson
@createchtivity
Thoughts on my grandmothers passing
This is a statement that clearly states what it feels,
People said it would get better with time, but the guilt that rest between time and better is eating at me. I cry less, well not much at all. How quickly the vividness of your passing has left me, or maybe reality wont fully allow for it
Thoughts on my grandmothers passing
I know two versions of myself
I do for a living I usually say writer i
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spend basically all my time either
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writing these videos writing code
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writing my fiction podcasts or writing
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music over the years of tweaking my
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writing environment I've noticed a
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subtle change every improvement to my
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writing systems improves my ability to
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think and reason about my work and my
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life looking into the psychology it's
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actually quite simple increasing the
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bandwidth between our mind in our brain
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and our mind on the page simply allows
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us to think faster and better according
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to the extended mind thesis and it turns
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out that in a very real way writing is
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thinking
Writer James Baldwin on hate as a defense mechanism: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
Yes this!