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My summary of Tyler Cowen's approach to leading an intellectually fulfilling life
Looking back over the past months, there is one commonality running through most of my non-mindfulness-focused newsletters and that is that I have a lot…
David Gasca
May 11
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A few minutes from Tyler Cowen's interview with Chuck Klosterman
Reflections on things falling apart
David Gasca
Feb 25
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On morning routines, habit cues & remembering
“Lose an hour in the morning chase it all day.” - Yiddish saying For most of my life I didn’t have a morning routine. It wasn’t really until my…
David Gasca
Apr 6
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Humans + Caffeine = magic
Reflections on the role of coffee in history, why cyclists drink espresso, and why tea can be better than coffee
David Gasca
Jun 6
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Embracing Deep Work
One book I’ve come back to a few times the past few years is Cal Newport’s “Deep Work.” For those of you not familiar with the term, “deep work” is…
David Gasca
Oct 7, 2021
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How to make living systems
On the Fundamental Process to Generate Living Systems, based on Christopher Alexander's Nature of Order
David Gasca
Jun 18
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On not drinking alcohol
The first 200 days
David Gasca
May 4
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An awareness of things: Mono no aware
Today’s post is a quick one. In pursuit of monotasking, there is one path that I find quite powerful and it’s an “awareness of things”: being conscious…
David Gasca
Oct 10, 2021
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How I "meditate"
On cherishing every breath
David Gasca
May 24
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8 months of Mystical Silicon
What have I been writing about?
David Gasca
May 17
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On making progress
Say you want to start a new task: learn something for school, work, fun; develop a new habit, workout, whatever… You set a goal, maybe buy a book about…
David Gasca
Oct 20, 2021
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Torii ⛩, Chuppahs, Sofre Aghd, the Golden Gate Bridge & making the world more alive
Part 3 on Christopher Alexander's "Nature of Order" & structural aliveness
David Gasca
May 31
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