shirley miao (shirlmeow)

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12-19-2018

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Letters
12-3-2019
Alternative formats
11-19-2019
Things I learned from swim
11-19-2019
Shooting For The Stars Once in a blue moon I'll read something so spectacular that it'll sit with me for months and years to come.
10-22-2019
A Decade's End
10-17-2019
Stream of consciousness
10-2-2019
Maybe the point is to come back
9-26-2019
Playing with ideas
9-24-2019
Looking backwards
9-19-2019
The Best Birthday Gift
9-16-2019
An exercise in unselfcensorship
8-27-2019
(Re)birth of a machine My personal laptop died a quick death two months ago. It's with great gusto that I welcome it back to life after two months in purgatory. The actual procedure of restoring its life took no more than fifteen minutes.
7-16-2019
Boundary expansion
7-8-2019
Flight, part 2
5-9-2019
How I got my camera
5-8-2019
Creative energy I've been thinking about the creative process, and how a person sometimes feels a forward flow of energy that needs to be channeled in some way.
4-23-2019
Timecop1983
4-17-2019
Not so secret?I have always referred to Reading Supply as my secret blog.
4-17-2019
Flying for the first time I flew for the first time in a lucid dream this morning. It felt amazing.
4-17-2019
Universal orchestra
4-13-2019
How to Join A Startup A journey of several months, countless conversations, and many revelations.
4-2-2019
Positive sum games
3-31-2019
Dear Reading Supply
3-12-2019
Metrik / Forza Horizon Soundtracks Genre: Drum & bass Origins: London, UK
3-11-2019
A note to myself
3-11-2019
Midnight Kids Genre: Dreampop, electronic Origins: SoCal
3-9-2019
A letter to a different founder
3-9-2019
Uncharted territory I've been thinking about institutions that exist, and how and if I want to place myself in their contexts.
3-3-2019
Inner voice
3-2-2019
Men on the moon Many years ago, I took an astronomy course taught by one of the most intriguing men I have ever known.
3-2-2019
Fixed ideas about unfortunate events
2-25-2019
Anger
2-20-2019
Gryffin Genre: Tropical house, EDM, chill house Origins: SoCal
2-20-2019
Bleachers Genre: indie pop rock Origins: New York City
2-17-2019
One year to Google and Facebook I'm so lucky to be surrounded by people who see working at companies like Google and Facebook as commonplace. But I was recently talking to a friend about breaking into the world of tech, and was reminded of how daunting it seemed from the outside. I barel...
2-10-2019
Revelation from a lucid dream Someone I really admire recently showed me a quote from Terence McKenna.
2-7-2019
Interconnectedness I am starting to see myself as this connected being that ebbs and flows with all the other pieces of this world.
2-4-2019
Learning Karpov from Kasparov
2-5-2019
The Hard Way One of the things that has always weirded me out about San Francisco tech culture was how much of it felt like The Truman Show.
1-31-2019
Letter to a Founder A deeply honest letter I wrote and sent
1-30-2019
Open door vs. closed door
1-28-2019
Mortality and career
1-20-2019
Expressed personality Human personality isn't static.
1-19-2019
Not about the odds
1-15-2019
Expansion in the unknown Soundtrack: Ignite, Fred V & Grafix Headspace: very lucid post-run
1-15-2019
Brain dump (Jan 13 edition)
1-14-2019
On advice I used to be really bad at taking advice from people I considered intelligent, experienced, or otherwise accomplished.
1-13-2019
Community
1-11-2019
Courage and generosity of spirit
1-10-2019
on privacy when an idea is in its infancy, telling others about it is a crime.
1-9-2019
Karma and the ability to choose Steinbeck and Buddhism
1-7-2019
Different words for the same thing
1-7-2019
Nothingness and a new friend
1-6-2019
Inverted Maslow's hierarchy
1-9-2019
Internal states of being An ode to the new year
1-4-2019
Ten rejections a month One of my goals this year
1-3-2019
Sandboxes figuring things out, building up hypothetical structures and then tearing them back down again.
12-31-2018
Definitions ft. the definition of closeness
12-31-2018
The story of human potential
12-30-2018
Can you see how this is funny?
12-28-2018
One of two things will happen
12-27-2018
The (lost) art of letter writing In the past, before the eras of telephones and emails, a person would sit down at their mahogany desk and compose letters.
12-27-2018
Things I've been reading December 25, 2018 edition
12-25-2018
Leave a record
12-25-2018
Foolish optimists I recently spent ten weeks in San Francisco as part of a startup accelerator.
12-22-2018
Something about art Something happened with my relationship with art in the last year.
12-20-2018
Moments that Live The Buddhists say, "There are no holy people or holy places, only holy moments" —moments of grace.
12-19-2018