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Did I Ever Leave?
Jun 3 • 
Connor Smith
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December 2024

AI: 2024 Year in Review
The End of Normal?
Dec 31, 2024 • 
Connor Smith
1

May 2024

Why We Do Hard Things
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DOMS
May 22, 2024 • 
Connor Smith
2

January 2024

The Parable of the Trash Can
"It will always be this way." Or will it?
Jan 12, 2024 • 
Connor Smith
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November 2023

The Case Against Cynicism
Your story sucks.
Nov 5, 2023 • 
Connor Smith
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January 2023

Should we all come to the same conclusions?
Nah.
Jan 28, 2023 • 
Connor Smith
1

September 2022

A Note on Grief
Grandpa died.
Sep 17, 2022 • 
Connor Smith
What's Wrong with Being Exceptional?
On Integrating the Shadow
Sep 4, 2022 • 
Connor Smith
1

June 2022

America Has a Problem, and It's You
Try to Keep an Open Mind
Jun 28, 2022 • 
Connor Smith
Lonely Islands
Trapped by my own mind
Jun 5, 2022 • 
Connor Smith
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May 2022

Why We Hate Musk, Pt 2
Slave morality as political capital in the US
May 16, 2022 • 
Connor Smith
Why We Hate Musk, Pt 1
It's not what you're telling yourself
May 14, 2022 • 
Connor Smith
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