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Shorter posts on fiction, coding, tools, projects, and things I'm thinking about.

Giving a Fuck Every Single Day Is Not Easy: On Equanimity

Perhaps we need to look closer when we struggle to give a fuck. When examining the causality chain that drives us towards reactive behavior, does a link in that chain point towards the equanimity we need to break free of it?

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The CTF Event Toggle on kalachakra.world

kalachakra.world is a lore site that turns into a capture-the-flag event during promotions, then turns back. Here's how the toggle actually works.

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Mindful Reading

It can be much easier to be critical of writing because the flaws are more obvious, but how can I be more mindful of what is working?

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Optimism as Agency

Regarding rewiring your mind and actions with the choice of optimism.

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How Meditation Informs Creative Work

An example of how my mindfulness meditation practice helps to inform my creative work and combat frustration.

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Collaborating With Claude

A brief tour of the workflow I created using Claude and Python.

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Building This Site

How I rebuilt bjbell.com as a FastAPI app with content authored in Obsidian and deployed via git push.

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