Two years of the pandemic, starting in Philly and ending in New York.
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- when childhood role models grow up
- viatical ownership
- imperogative humanism in absence of moral absoluism
- identity formation through consumption and redemption
- temporal disassociation and existential detachment
- how modernist ethics ruined the good life
- the confusion between altruism and power
- on virtue signals
- why the past seems never enough
- how our freedom diminshes as we age
- the past does not exist
- relegative existence
- identity formation in college
- this reality is not real
- the freedom-gratitude dichotomy
- all that glitters is not gold
- proof of life
- sense and necessity
- aesthetic capital
- f = ma
- inherent motivation
- farewell dream world
- what is best for us
- becoming beautiful
- modern portfolio theory and the optimal allocation of emotional resources
- intensity and vulnerability
- existential imbalance
- i miss listening to “youth” by daughter
- up or out
- past happiness is not indicative of future happiness
- altruism and disconnection
- the next coping mechanism
- intimacy as a depreciating asset
- nothing better to do
- return on existence and cost of vitality
- this is society
- social activities
shades of gwei 