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What Should An Individual Do In The Face Of Collapse?
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Ideas from the Mahabharata and dates from the Kali Yuga
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Life After Death
Like day after night
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The Horror Of The Airport Perfume Aisle
Get me out of this damned spot
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How Grief Is An Out Of Body Experience
Grief is pain felt in other bodies
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A Day In The Life Of A Migrant
The life of an expat in Oxford
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0.0) Starting A Book
The intro to the intro of a book
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Life Is Never Getting Back To ‘Normal’
Grouches of the world unite
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What You Learn Watching Kids Fight
We try to teach them, but what do we know?
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What To Do When Someone Dies
When someone close dies and you’re far away
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Turning 40 At The End Of The World (As I Know It)
and I feel fine
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The Existence Of Family And The Non-Existence Of Self
How we exist on many dimensions at once
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Mental Health Is Not Your Problem, It’s Our Problem
On mental health and material conditions.
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When Your Life Becomes News It’s Miserable
I never wanted to be some scribe of collapse, least of all for my own country
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Misfortune Favors The Paranoid
How I’ve learned to over-react as Sri Lanka collapses
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How To Parent In This Unruly Age
Lol I don't know
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Leaving.
Leaving my country as it collapses.
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Last Call On The Titanic
Having a drink while it all goes down
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Are You Depressed If Things Are Actually Sad?
When the world goes mad, only a crazy person stays sane
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A Death Too Young
On losing a young friend
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Today Is The Buddha’s Birthday, But He Can’t Come
This is the saddest Vesak I remember
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Three Happy Moments
In a rather stressful life
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You Don’t Have To Be You All The Time
Being a citizen and a consumer all the time sucks. We’re social animals and being disconnected hurts
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The Constant Stress Of The World Constantly Ending
Life under wave after wave of disaster
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How Sri Lanka Has Fallen Into Darkness
We have 13 hour powercuts now, and people are enraged
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I Think I’m Starting To Scare White People
Whiteness is losing power, and I can feel it
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What’s In A Name?
Why having one ‘official’ name is so alien
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The Pointlessness Of COVID Travel Theatre
Most COVID rules are just rituals. They preserve hierarchies, but don’t change reality
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The Illusion Of Being Alone
We are born together and die together
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The Beggars Of Capitalism
The poverty at our doorsteps
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How Easy It Is Making Money From A Newsletter (It’s Not)
How much money I make from this newsletter.
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Blackberry Died, But I’m Still Using One
RIP to the perfect low-distraction phone
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Why I—A Buddhist—Love Jesus
Some Christ for Christmas
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The Crazy Experience Of Seeing People After Years
Crawling out of the pandemic foxhole for a self-declared Christmas truce
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Taking A Vacation To My Past
You can go home, but you can never return
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Something Happy To Write About
There's always children
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The Concept Of Enough
You don't need to be rich, famous, or powerful to be happy. You just need enough
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Teaching Our Daughter To Not Take Shit
The patriarchy starts young
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All The Work I Do Not Do
The comfort and conflict of domestic work
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How I Grew Up Alien
And how I never made it home
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How Anger Scars A House
Lessons from locking a kid in a room (not on purpose)
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How The Pandemic Radicalized Me
When the world is going mad, it’s insane to not change
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Screen Time Can’t Be Worse Than My Dangerous Childhood
Whatever you do on a screen, you can’t light it on fire
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How I Quit WhatsApp
Quitting the demon app is not for everyone, but it’s possible
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A Roundup Of Things Not On The Internet
A perception, a memory, a book
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How America Broke My Heart
I grew up in the American Dream. It’s become a nightmare
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Why I Talk About Being Rich
Breaking the first rule of capitalism (don’t talk about capitalism)
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Life After COVID
It’s almost surreal
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The Racism Of COVID Coverage, and How I’ve Been Racist Myself
Connecting a longer thread
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Who Am I Sending This To, Nobody
First newsletter
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Living With A Peanut Allergy
I live, which makes me very lucky