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Book review: King, Warrior, Magician, Lover

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover describes four evocative masculine capacities that one might want to cultivate: * King * Warrior * Magician * Lover You are already capable of embodying the King, the Warrior, the Magician, and the Lover. Each of these is a capacity you already have to some extent, whatever your gender. But,

Attempting to improve one's love life is fine, actually

There's a strain of argument in dating advice that says: Trying to improve your love life is making it worse. This strain pisses me off. The worst way of putting this is that "the universe will provide." Straight-up woo soulmate shit. Cosmic justice. Eternalism. A more

2x2s for fun and grofit

I read an interesting post about using frameworks in a business context. It got me thinking about how I'd use the 2x2 as a way of clarifying my thinking. Of course, I have proceeded to use it only in a personal context. (I actually don't think

An adventure is not a mission is not a positive vision of the future

Goal, trajectory, adventure, mission, and positive vision of the future are three close but importantly different ideas. It is so easy to confuse them that in writing about them I've found myself clumping them all together like cat litter. I want to try and sort out the boundaries

There's often room to know a line dance better

I "know" a lot of line dances, probably fifty, and this is less impressive than it sounds. It's not a complete knowing in all cases. For any given dance, there's lots to know: * When one sees others doing part of the dance and hears

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