Category: Notebook

Seeing myself, the people in my life, and the world in terms of vows has brought me a set of gifts. I look closely at each person, and try to discern what their vow is….

Like most teenagers, I went through a rebellious phase. I became a fervent atheist, amongst other things. In retrospect, this was a strange development. I wasn’t raised as a theist. I grew up in the…

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?…

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…

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…

In this piece, I’ll reflect on my conversational influences, and the moves and skills I learned from each of them.

There is an online community that I’m in that has an unusual but powerful social technology for asynchronous communication, colloquially called “feeds.”

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…

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…

As a younger man, I was more innocent, more idealistic – and also more anxious. At this time in my life, I saw a placard in someone’s office. It said something like this: “How can I use today to serve others?”