HeyJaredThe Red Thread
... is me. I'm the only red thread here and these are the thoughts of someone who finds nearly everything interesting.
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Doing the work yourself is your unfair advantage (opens the original)
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Why would I bother using my gym’s weight plates when I can just show up with my’ own? I’ve been planning to get some fake plates. You heard me right! And not just any fake plates, mine need to be massive. As light as possible, though. I’m going to write 50 kg on the side, even though they’ll really weigh (hopefully) a measly 2.5 kilos. I’ll haul them around the gym and bask in the admiring looks of my fellow gym-goers. People will be impressed.What’s the point? you might ask. Well, I just want t
You don’t need a new [X], you need a passion project (opens the original)
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I recently found myself in a position where I desperately needed a project to focus my energy on. As a bit of background, here's one of my drafts to set the scene.At some point in September 2026“The other day my friend used this phrase to describe people who have accepted their fate in everyday life, stuck in an existence that's colorless, or at least colored with muddied pastels, but not precisely dark. Where things get done just as they are expected to be done, without really thinking much abo
Your inability to decide makes you bland (opens the original)
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In the 14th century there lived a philosopher named Jean Buridan, to whom the story of the donkey (ass) is often attributed. It’s called Buridan’s ass.In the story, a donkey finds itself between two equally tempting bales of hay, and because they are equally tempting, it cannot choose between them. Hungry and unable to decide between the bales, the donkey eventually starves to death.“It should have just chosen one first and the other later” is, of course, easy and rational to think.The story rem
I just want to laugh more (opens the original)
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My teenage trademark was laughing. Constantly, at everything. Magnificent, I think, really!I still think laughing is one of the best things in the whole wide world. I even have a tattoo about it, actually. Of Pippi Longstocking (not sure what this means to anyone outside the Nordics). I loved her whole attitude toward life and decided, as a kid reading those books, that I would never grow up to be boring. And laughter is a fairly non-negotiable part of a non-boring adult life.Still. Every so oft
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