HeyJaredWhat We Are
I like to write about mental health, trauma, relationships, work, meaning-making, and social dynamics, often through the lens of my own experiences and feelings.
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Static and nothing (opens the original)
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This is a continuation of my essay series; I’ve previously written Self-blame, Anger, and Validation and Fear. This essay is about dissociation. TW: I discuss rapePart I: Like many victims, I knew the person who raped me. I spoke with him afterwards, several times. I spent seve
The very best possibilities (opens the original)
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When we were 19, my now fiance downloaded an app that could automatically record our calls. Really, she just wanted the beginning “hellos” and the final “I love yous” for our one-year anniversary video. Of course, she forgot the app existed and ended up recording all of our phone conversations for some number of months.Upon discovering this, she sat me down in an incredibly distressed state and informed me that she’d unknowingly violated my privacy. She said that she understood if I needed some
No one is going to save the EA brand (opens the original)
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Manifund has announced that it hired Caroline Ellison, who pleaded guilty to charges relating to the FTX fraud and served time for it. She started a work trial in July, went full-time in August, and worked under a pseudonym until the announcement this week.The collapse of FTX was a significant moment in EA’s history. It saw clawbacks for EA organisations, including the roughly $26.8 million Effective Ventures agreed to return to the FTX bankruptcy estate. It caused reputational damage and harmed
Summarizing Doing Good Better from memory (opens the original)
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Remember when effective altruism organisations would hand out Doing Good Better and The Precipice like they were sheets of paper? Is that still happening?? Everywhere I go, a copy of Superintelligence sits on a shelf. I don’t actually think I’ve read it, but the psychological effect of having viewed the cover some 1,000,000,000 times makes it impossible to know for sure. Doing Good Better had a formative influence on my personal values. After reading it, I worked in the effective altruism space
Validation and Fear (opens the original)
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I’m currently sitting on a collection of essays exploring the emotions and themes I experienced after being raped two-ish years ago, and how those evolved over time. I’ve previously published Self-blame and Anger. This post has my two favourites (two-for-one!): Validation and Fear.ValidationWhen I
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