Joe Cecil

Why we can't just build a better dating "market"

In short: Because as soon as one's focused on getting, which is the exact reason one would enter a dating "market" space in the first place, one tends also to notice and emphasize not having. Then one feels bad about that, and in your misery one

The unreasonable usefulness of rereading things I have already written

I did an exercise recently over two consecutive days, a Wednesday and Thursday, where I wrote down experiences I might like to have on a date. I ended up with a little over 5 notebook pages (perhaps A5 paper size?) of ideas. Later in the week, I ended up journaling

Upgrading to Ghost v6 on Ubuntu

I just upgraded my Ghost install to v6 on Ubuntu, and it took some problem-solving. I tried upgrading my Ghost install from v5 to v6, but my Node version was too old. I needed to install nvm under the ghost user. I did this a "bad but official"

The problem with fantasies

It's not that I am drawn to something that isn't real, or isn't realistic, or might not happen. The same way that everything dies, everything was born. Everything that is, wasn't, until it was. And screw the odds. It's the

Romance as a gathering purpose undermines itself because people fake a "more likeable" persona instead of being vulnerable

(for straight dating, anyway, and ignoring the problem of cheaters among other things) When people set out to pursue romance, they usually do it by putting their "best selves forward." That is: Their most generally appealing selves, not their most strongly appealing selves. That means hiding everything about

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