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Defining quality of life and life priorities through personal examples, using medical treatment decisions to guide meaningful living choices.
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So for example, one person I write about said, minimal quality of life. Well, if I can watch football on television and eat chocolate ice cream, that'd be good enough for me. Like that's the best living will ever. That's the instructions you need, right? If you You can, you know, will this operation, will this medicine help me still eat
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Overcoming writer's block through free writing practice and maintaining a 'done list' to build self-confidence and productivity
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I definitely did clamp up a bit in the, just in the context of writing, what really shifted things for me was learning to do free writing, which is this kind of, you know, as you know, practice where you just sort of set a timer and keep your fingers moving on the keys or keep your hand writing, but you don't, you write regardless of whether you
... See moreOvercoming creative paralysis through free writing practice to manage perfectionism and second album syndrome pressure
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yeah no and i did cramp up i mean at a certain point in this process because i think that's very lots of people will be familiar with that dynamic right you too i'm sure that like it's very difficult uh if you achieve something that you're proud of it's very difficult for that not to just become the absolute minimum baseline that you've got to
... See morePerfectionism, self-confidence, and embracing imperfection to produce best work with confidence
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It does take a high degree of self-belief and self-confidence to embrace the truth of your imperfection. It's a weird kind of like twist of the mind on some level. You would think like someone who has a very high opinion of themselves is a perfectionist, but actually in order to produce your best work with confidence, you have to have a healthy
... See moreOvercoming creative paralysis through free writing practice and managing perfectionism after achieving success
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yeah no and i did cramp up i mean at a certain point in this process because i think that's very lots of people will be familiar with that dynamic right you too i'm sure that like it's very difficult uh if you achieve something that you're proud of it's very difficult for that not to just become the absolute minimum baseline that you've got to
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The power of selective detail in writing: using minimal descriptions distributed throughout text to create vivid impressions
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Again, it's, um, and here's another thing to keep in mind. You don't need that many details. Explain that.
Even, even a long book is only whatever, 500 pages. And it's probably a total of less than one page devoted to describing the weather in that book.
And yet you feel kind of well apprised because that's going to be 20 different points at which
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Trump's Genesis Mission: Using federal scientific datasets and AI to accelerate breakthrough discoveries from years to days
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President Trump has signed an executive order establishing something called the Genesis Mission to boost AI innovation, including by using federal scientific data sets to train models and create AI agents.
Quoting Reuters, Trump directed the U.S. Energy Department and U.S. National Laboratories to, quote, unite America's brightest minds, most
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The nature of execution in game development: making countless small decisions that shape the final product from concept to reality
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I guess execution is like making all of these little decisions of what it actually is from a concept where I feel like in the idea stage, that's why ideas are so great because you haven't narrowed anything down yet. You haven't excluded any of the possibilities. The idea it's a fantasy slot machine game has so many potential incarnations of
... See moreGame development journey: transforming a six-week slot machine MVP into a seven-month project through iterative investment and continuous value creation
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Because I think you spent a little more time than six weeks, right? It ended up becoming seven months. So that didn't work out. But it was, I guess the game was sort of a, you could say like a victim of its own success.
I made it, I showed them the final thing. It was I could have gotten it I think to a publishable state in another week And they
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