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[Link] I Have 233 Diaries, Which I’ve Kept Since 1993
Read: 5/5/2022 humanparts.medium.com
Last month, I published a book about my many, many diaries. The book (which is a graphic memoir called Dear Sophie, Love Sophie; and which you can and should buy) employed a practice of writing back from the present to past versions of myself, as was recorded in my old journals.
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[Link] This 10-Minute Mindfulness Hack Is Equivalent of 44 Minutes Extra Sleep, Say Experts
Read: 31/1/2022 getpocket.com
Practicing mindfulness can help us feel less tired, researchers have found.
[Link] Model Claims She Was Turned Into a Sex Doll Without Her Permission
Read: 13/1/2022 www.vice.com
The doll has the same dark hair, glasses, lip freckle, and name as her. The company, called Irontech, claims that this was all a coincidence. She first posted publicly about the doll in July 2019, on Instagram.
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[Link] How to Read Less News But Be More Informed, According to a Futurist
Read: 6/12/2021 getpocket.com
Be a little picky but stay open to new sources, and know when to shut down.
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[Link] 4 Work-From-Home Tech Tricks I Learned From Twitch Streamers
Read: 21/11/2021 www.wired.com
Like many Americans in office jobs, I started working from home in March due to Covid-19, and I haven’t been back to the office since.
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[Link] Our Brains Were Not Built for This Much Uncertainty
Read: 21/11/2021 hbr.org
Prior to the pandemic, the working world already felt to most of us like it was undergoing rapid, unrelenting change — changes in customer preferences, client and employee expectations, and competitive advantages.
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[Link] After a Person Accidentally Kills Someone, How Do They Heal and Move On?
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
When news broke that Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun on a movie set, many were quick to litigate Baldwin’s level of responsibility and search for someone to blame.
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[Link] Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts
Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
According to addiction expert Dr. Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?
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[Link] Get Reading: This Is How Books Can Impact Your Mental Health
Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
We’ve long known that we can find comfort, solace and help in the pages of a book, and now research has confirmed that reading can be good for our mental health.
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[Link] How to Identify Your Shadow Emotions (and Why You Should)
Read: 2/11/2021 lifehacker.com
At some point in our childhood, we learn that living in a society means controlling certain emotions. We suppress, in particular, emotions we consider to be “negative”—fear, anger, jealousy, selfishness—for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that we consider them shameful.
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[Link] Why Do I Hate the Way I Look in Every Photo?
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
It's not that you're not hot. So... what is it, then? How to actually stop doing the things you know aren't exactly good for you.