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jiggybling | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

Cool to see more dancers on HN! I'm gettin into it more myself, I was wondering if you could share the software you used in some of your shorts to practice dance?

jiggybling | 1 year ago | on: The Strangeness of Grief (2019)

I felt sad for her father's death but then didn't make it through the great length with which she talked about a cat that you knew was going to be dead anyways.

jiggybling | 2 years ago | on: Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs

What's your company and how can you get experience in this kind of engineering?

jiggybling | 2 years ago | on: Writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge

I tried weed once a few years ago and took a bit too much as well. When the euphoria hit, I realized I had never felt that good in my entire life and I became scared of the idea that I would lose control. My thoughts also sped up and I would get into these metacognitive/self-analytical loops. I'd start thinking about something and before I could finish I'd have another thought analyzing what I had just thought, and so on. And I experienced the loss of filter. At the time, I was with a friend in his basement and we were surrounded by his mom's amateur paintings. I've never been an art person but I remember looking at one of her paintings and talking nonstop about all the different visual details that kept popping out at me.

I didn't have as complete as loss of inhibition as you described however. The friend I was with wasn't someone I completely trusted - many of my thoughts I decided not to share. Still, I think the experience was valuable and I'm glad I tried it. Although, in retrospect any self-insight I gained I don't think I truly took to heart, as it didn't lead to any meaningful behavioral change. It's only been two days, but I wonder what kind of long term changes you will see. Has the loss of filter persisted in any way or did it wear off when you came down?

Either way, your story, outside of being well written and incredibly personable, gives me hope for my own healing. I'd love to connect and hear more about where your experience takes you, especially if you end up trying cannabis assisted therapy. I'm planning on trying psychedelic assisted therapy at some point so it would be cool to have someone to discuss with. My email is in my profile if you're interested.

jiggybling | 4 years ago | on: How I Build

The paintbrush idea is brilliant.

Also, not a plug, but I've used Roam Research (https://roamresearch.com/) before and it would be cool if there was some way to integrate how both you guys do linking. The difference being documents are linked together by basically a web hyperlink, whereas in kinopio the links can only happen at the card level, but the UI is much better.

jiggybling | 5 years ago | on: Robinhood was indeed too good to be true

I thought Interactive Brokers also sold its flow.

jiggybling | 5 years ago | on: Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study

fair enough

jiggybling | 5 years ago | on: Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study

Can you give an example, personal or otherwise?

jiggybling | 5 years ago | on: Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]

I wonder how strong the long-term inverse effect is having gone to a magnet high school and seeing a certain level of self esteem fallout for many people that I would say were hard working but nowhere close to "profoundly gifted".