HeyJaredThings I Shouldn't Say
Essays on identity, adaptation, awareness, and the patterns we keep repeating long after we understand them.
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Almost Knowing (opens the original)
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Dear friends,I have been itching to write a story for a long time. I have postponed it far too many times, more than I’d like to admit, convinced that I don’t have enough time to ideate, create, and polish. Storytelling is something I am passionate about to the point that it might be making me a perfectionist, something I have worked hard to shed in many areas of life. It is a craft, and like any other, it needs doing to get better at. So this is an unpolished draft of a story that has been writ
I Didn’t Plan My Best Summer Moments (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,It’s been a while since we met. I am writing in the pre-lunch hour at work, accompanied by my tumbler of special coffee, which is the roast I got while travelling to Heidelberg over the summer this year. Its lush aroma fills my cabin but seems to resist floating up to the ceiling with its broad panels of abrasive fluorescent lights, which I also find uncomfortable staring at. Unlike our memories, where the deep, rich tones of their fragrance lingered around as I daydreamed, before q
Living Life's Small Delights Twice (Memory Keeping) (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,I had all kinds of technology issues right before I went live last week. I wasn’t able to see those who joined and didn’t find out till later. This conversation is the third in this series of analog practices that help me be more intentional. The recordings for the first two can be found here:A Gratitude Practice I Used to Roll My Eyes At<a href="https://priyankaupadhyai.substack.com/p/a-bet
After A Year On Substack, I Think We’re Overlooking the Reader (opens the original)
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A Better Life And Business Maybe Hiding In The Notebook You Don't Want To Open (opens the original)
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Dear friends,If you missed it, last week in the first live session of the series on analog practices that are helping me live a better and more intentional life, I sharedA Gratitude Practice I Used To Roll My Eyes AtStream of consciousness writing or Pandora’s box that you don’t want to open?Many practitioners seem to advise against retrospectively reading stream of consciousness pages. After all, it is
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