Agenty Duck

I'm now blogging at Substack.

I'll begin with some context-setting.

Hey guess what I have a kid now!

Man I am so very overdue for this post.

I have a chocolate blog!

I've written an entire sequence introducing "naturalism", and I've just finished publishing it on LessWrong.

I've got an essay up at LessWrong that definitely belongs here as well, but that's where it's all nicely formatted so I'm just gonna link.

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One of the assignments I very often suggest to students of naturalism is "be bored".

In May and June of 2021, I ran an online nature study course with about two dozen participants.

I think the reason I sat on that last post for two years is because I said what I think people are doing wrong, and I said what the right thing to do is, but I didn't actually say how to do the right thing.

[I wrote this in 2019, and just decided to post it here.

I struggle a lot with mornings.

Starting May 16th, I'm running a nature study course called "Original Seeing With a Focus On Life".

Linkpost: I've got a new essay about curiosity and naturalism over at LessWrong!

Great question, thanks for asking!

I wrote up my shame processing method.

What It’s Like While remembering a recent discussion with a friend, I find myself feeling grateful.

One of the best things I've added to my repertoire of study tools is trying to learn the aesthetic taste of the author.

A friend who is interested in building muscle told me, “I’m curious how you relate to the pain of doing exercise.”

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Starting last weekend and going until March, I’ll be spending every other weekend in yoga teacher training, learning how to be a yoga instructor.

When I was in Indiana, I took dozens of snapshots of a slide.

Most of the ideas in this post come from the book Being A Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell by Alexandra Horowitz, which is my favorite nonfiction book I’ve read in a long time.

meditate on… What have I gained in the past year?