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After those two stories, I’m left with two broader insights — about responsibility, freedom, conflict, and why aggression almost never makes sense.
This is the promised second part — a story not about conflict, but about reclaiming control over a trauma I carried for years. To do it, I had to temporarily adopt a worldview with a very wild moral compass — not because I believe it, but because it helped me finally forgive what once terrified me.
If naming a fear makes it smaller, then maybe this isn’t just psychology — maybe it’s a universal human myth.
Why you'd better fail
A continuation of the post why it is important to verify information and how you can check if your beliefs are in line with your own standards.
Why attempt to make communication "polite" and "evenly distributed" ruins the experience of breaking the bread with strangers.
What is much more fearful than Roco's Basilisk for me?
How to defeat the famous Roco's Basilisk?
Some of the norms we accept are not humane at all. Though not following them may also not be humane.
Why your dreams don't define you — but what you pay for them does.
What's common between the start of opioid epidemic in the USA and the trend not to accept any criticism?
Notes after Doronichev’s talk: why the future is now.
How Russian govenrment drew the line between its friends and enemies and how it backlashes them.
A metaphor about depression as a monster that feeds on attention — and how I recognized it.
If AI ends up doing everything, how will humans still earn money? There are two answers — one optimistic (I prefer this one) and one… less so. In both cases, the key currencies of the future aren’t skills or knowledge, but engagement and vulnerability.