KnowTheBetter

the other side of virtue of vague. personal essays on attention, ego, guilt, doubt, and the stories we tell about ourselves — written from inside the problem, not from the far side of it.

the same habit that reads an attacker reads a person. here it’s pointed at family arguments, at willpower, at the parts of ourselves we’d rather not look at — and mostly at me.

good places to start: the shadow you pretend isn’t there, your mind doesn’t accept no, how to make a near-perfect argument, and the three-part series that begins with the mask is real.

everything else is below, newest first.