What is a Vow?
I always felt called to a sense of purpose. It felt like life had meaning, like I was here for a reason. But I was confused. What was my purpose? How would I find it?…
Author: Tasshin
The Art of Writing The Informational Blog Post
There’s a genre of blog posts that many of my blog posts fall into: what I call the “informational blog post.” Not all of my writing falls into this category. I also write shitposts, autobiographical…
Reflections on Buddhist Right Speech
Right Speech is the third component of Buddhism’s Noble Eightfold Path. Reflecting on Right Speech is a necessary component of the Buddhist spiritual path, but also provides useful guidelines for anyone who is aware of…
Scaling Benefit
I intentionally structure my projects to create what I call “maximum deep benefit”: helping as many people as possible, as deeply as possible.
Conversational Moves
In this piece, I’ll reflect on my conversational influences, and the moves and skills I learned from each of them.
Notes on Learning Tai Chi
As with most things in my life, I’m not an expert in Tai Chi. But the little that I know, and that I practice each day, has brought me great joy and many benefits.
Feeds: An Anthropological Report on a Powerful Online Social Technology
There is an online community that I’m in that has an unusual but powerful social technology for asynchronous communication, colloquially called “feeds.”
A Bedtime Story for Bloob
Tell me a bedtime story — itty bitty bloob (@bloobsandnoods) March 18, 2022 There was once a princess from a little village in the forest. One day, her grandmother took her aside after dinner and…
Learn You a Fundraising For Great Good!
Fundraising is one of the most powerful skills I’ve ever learned. In this post, I’ll share the basics of fundraising with you.
A Mettawave Manifesto
A lot of Western meditation culture is built around sitting silently in a room. There are good reasons for that – silence and stillness can be useful for practice in certain styles and traditions. But…