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• One of my hacks for not getting too upset about travel disruptions is to think, "maybe I am somebody's sign, and that's why I had to leave later, or by a different route". The tram broke down and everyone had to get off and wait for the next one, because on...

  November 1, 2025 at 3:03 amMcKinley Valentine

• I strongly disagree with the suggestion to put "In my view" before everything. It's tedious and ruins the structure of a lot of good sentences. It's also redundant. Unless I'm a doctor talking about medicine, or an accountant talking about tax strategies or whatever, if I state something... what else...

  November 1, 2025 at 2:58 amMcKinley Valentine

• "The thinking mind can be a small and oppressive place." A great observation, and one I've been battling with since starting to follow Stoicism the past couple years. My mind is easily busy and distracted, and Stoicism has been helping me with mindfulness and being present in that which only...

  October 29, 2025 at 12:19 pmStephen

• I basically agree but if you listen to speech or read writing of almost any sort, it is loaded with truth claims that are not flagged with tedious qualifiers like "in my opinion" or "I think that," because as you say none of us really knows anything but we have...

  October 25, 2025 at 4:50 pmDavid

• Mostly fair and valid points... i agree for the most part. But one thing i would add, which i said to a fellow Westerner foreigner here in Cambodia last-night, is this : everything sounds better when expressed as an OPINION (e.g. 'in my view' or 'in my opinion' or...

  October 24, 2025 at 9:30 pmNick Piesiewicz