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World’s Strongest Librarian’s 12 Most Popular Posts And The Stories And Updates Behind Them

March 19, 2010

I’ve done a lot of writing in the past year. I’ve written posts that I thought would be well-received and pretty much flopped.  I’ve written posts that I thought were so-so that wound up being extremely popular.
A lot of people have asked me where I get my ideas. Basically, I get through each day without [...]

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How To Have Tourette’s Part 18: 8400 Seconds

March 17, 2010

It used to seem like an impossible goal, on par with jumping into orbit, swimming to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, or being able to divide fractions.
I want to sit still for one minute. 60 seconds of peace.
When I was six years old, I started to twitch with involuntary tics. This did not [...]

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The Only Thing I Know (Maybe)

March 13, 2010

Back when I was (briefly) a philosophy major, it was fun to say words like “epistemological” and stare intently at theorems as if they really mattered. I’m not saying that the stuff can’t be worthwhile, and I’m certainly not trying to talk people out of philosophizing if that’s what they like.  There’s certainly nothing wrong [...]

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Are You Truly Free?

March 10, 2010

Earlier this week I received the most powerful, moving guest post I’ve ever read. About 24 hours later, the author decided that they were not comfortable having it published after all.
I was disappointed but I understood. The post was about overcoming a very serious addiction.
And although I won’t be able to publish it, I would [...]

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How To Have Tourette’s Part 17: Getting Better At Getting Worse

March 9, 2010

You there!
I was going to type this today, but the tics wouldn’t let me. So I turned on the recorder, but the audio actually gives some more relevant bearing to today’s topic than the writing would have. The recording has some advice I believe we can both use.
It’s about eight minutes long. I’m pretty noisy [...]

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