June 2020 updates
Hey!
In June I
published one big post: Why is there only one Elon Musk? Why is there so much low-hanging fruit?
started posting quite a lot on my forum in an attempt to decrease dependency on capricious reddit and twitter. Do participate! https://forum.guzey.com/top/monthly
an extended rumination: This productivity advice won’t help you but you should read it anyway
added my bachelor's thesis How Our Commitments Slip Away From Us (pdf) to my home page -- I think it's actually really good and more people should read it
re-released an interactive experience called "a dying snake" I originally coded up in 2017 and lost when I migrated the site in 2018
collected all interviews and public appearances of mine here
my favorite interview so far is the one I gave to Max Efremov
Best of Twitter for June:
https://bestoftwitter.substack.com/p/best-of-twitter-week-of-may-25-2020/comments
https://bestoftwitter.substack.com/p/best-of-twitter-week-of-june-1-2020/comments
https://bestoftwitter.substack.com/p/best-of-twitter-week-of-june-8-2020/comments
https://bestoftwitter.substack.com/p/best-of-twitter-week-of-june-15-2020
https://bestoftwitter.substack.com/p/best-of-twitter-week-of-june-22-2020
Quote of the month is from Becoming a Therapist by Bender and Messner:
- Sometimes an empathic lapse occurs when my countertransference—my
subjective reaction to the patient—interferes with my ability to respond
therapeutically. I find these empathic lapses especially challenging as I
need to respond to the patient’s needs while simultaneously analyzing
my own inner experience.
- We’ve set up an example of a countertransference reaction leading
to an empathic lapse in Examples 15.3 and 15.4. When Sallie starts to
make some new friends other than Gwen, I’m surprised to find that I am
not as pleased as I might have expected. Maybe I feel unconsciously possessive of Sallie after working with her intensively for many months, and
I am reluctant to share my special niche as her confidant.
- Occasionally I have felt pangs of jealousy when a young adult patient
has found a special mentor in her life and has talked repeatedly
about how this person is so helpful, unusual, creative, and so forth. Although
my patient’s comments are evidence of emotional growth, sometimes
it’s not easy to feel replaced.
- I’m sharing this story to encourage you not to disregard these feelings,
unappealing as they may be. When these feelings are recognized
and processed, the therapy can be protected. They are most troublesome
when they are ignored.
- When I don’t admit my feelings of jealousy to myself in Example
15.3, I unconsciously act on them by criticizing Sallie’s new choice of
friends.
I feel like it says something very deep about human nature and about relationships we have with other people.
Cheers,
Alexey