Regular announcements: did you know you can hire me for life coaching and general consulting? You can also buy my novella Her Voice Is A Backwards Record wherever fine books are sold (except Google Books).| thingofthings.substack.com
I am going to be at Metagame next weekend!| Thing of Things
When I was a therapy client, I found myself very frustrated by my therapists' refusal to diagnose me.| Thing of Things
Most history books I read feature, at best, one Weird Person of History: one person so charismatic, so active, so goddamn strange, that he seems almost like the main character of reality.| Thing of Things
For more than a decade, love-shy men—men who struggle to find a romantic partner—have been emailing me and posting in my comment section about their woes.| Thing of Things
Tino De Angelis was the most persecuted man of all time.| Thing of Things
Everyone is so weird about apologizing to children.| Thing of Things
I find this review of dating men in the Bay Area very interesting, which is why I'm going to write a long-ass post complaining about it.| Thing of Things
As I read Maoism: A Global History, I came to the conclusion that Maoism is a cognitohazard.| Thing of Things
Maoism: A Global History is densely packed with both stories and insight, which means that my factpost about it is leaving out about as much as I put in, even though I have split it into two parts.| Thing of Things
I’m in Asterisk reporting on rationalist cults.| Thing of Things
Testosterone-driven sexuality is different from estrogen-driven sexuality.| Thing of Things
A while back, the blogger Cartoons Hate Her had a great tweet:| Thing of Things
I have grouped the subscriber questions loosely by topic, rather than by individual asker, and skipped a couple questions where I felt I had no interesting answer.| Thing of Things
I've seen some people (who aren't parents) question whether it's reasonable to expect people to love their children unconditionally.| Thing of Things
I have picked up a lot of new paid subscribers since the last time I did something like this, so: let's do a subscriber questions post!| Thing of Things
what universal human experiences are you missing?| Thing of Things
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a rationalist, in possession of a vague understanding of Bayes’ Theorem, must be in want of some woo.| Thing of Things
Against some evopsych| thingofthings.substack.com
The nicest herrenmoralist. Click to read Thing of Things, by Ozy Brennan, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| thingofthings.substack.com
The choices that you don't see| thingofthings.substack.com
Clickbait title: You'll Never Guess Who Is REALLY The Bad Parent!| thingofthings.substack.com
Advice for the excessively guilty| thingofthings.substack.com
In praise of occasionally thinking about feelings| thingofthings.substack.com
I'm a personal responsibility blogger in my old age| thingofthings.substack.com