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Short pieces on attention, lived experience, reading, and worldview. · 4 posts

Sep29 Essays A Silent Night My rented apartment has a great view, and I often go out to the balcony to look at the scenery. Standing on the balcony, two roads lie before me, dividing the view into three parts. On the far left is a bay, its natural scenery very beautiful; people like to gather there... 09/29/2024 Jun14 Essays Criticism and Accepting Criticism Few people are harder to deal with than those impervious to advice and unwilling to listen. 06/14/2022 Aug22 Essays Entrenched Preconceptions As people grow older, their belief in fatalism generally hardens; by contrast, young people, driven by curiosity and creativity, seldom subscribe to fate. Over time, repeated positive and negative experiences carve a person's cognition, producing fixed views and prejudices... 08/22/2021 Mar08 Essays On Meaning Nature is chaotic and disorderly; its entropy is extreme. In the vast world, its details are too many to lay out, and no human creation can contain them. It is so chaotic that no function or physical law can easily summarize it... 03/08/2021