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There’s a growing trend toward public sexual openness — and while I fully support consent and adult freedom, something about this new performative sexuality feels… adolescent. So let me finally articulate why threads like “How I choose nipple clamps” make me roll my eyes.
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.
I’ve started documenting my small “daily victories” — not because they’re heroic, but because they show what self-trust and self-love can grow into. Here’s one that happened on a morning flight to Prague, and why what looked like a conflict… wasn’t one at all.
Willpower is a limited resource — so how would you use it wise like a wisard?
Why you'd better fail
Why the changes in your life can only be the result of your efforts
How staying a perfectionist can stop you from results
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 government is not effective in controling anything
Why attempt to make communication "polite" and "evenly distributed" ruins the experience of breaking the bread with strangers.
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.
Russian passport on Moldovan border and my little adventures.
Comparing yourself to locals is unfair; compare yourself to who you’d be if you never left.
What's common between the start of opioid epidemic in the USA and the trend not to accept any criticism?
Two simple lessons I learned from keeping a to-do notebook: rest is part of the plan, and procrastination hates clarity.
Interpreting a loaded quote through orthogonal vs opposing attributes — and why context matters.
Eight goal‑free days between jobs and how doing 'nothing' restored energy and curiosity.
Notes from turning 33: what I let go of, what I keep, and why it makes life easier.