0I Do Not Remember My Life and It's Fine
2025-06-05 •
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Marco Giancotti explores existential topics through his blog, Aether Mug, focusing on metacognition and language.
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0I'll Take a Short Blogging Break
2025-05-15 •
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0Replaced
2025-05-01 •
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0Meditations on the Color of Pee
2025-04-23 •
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0What if Gratitude Was Built Into the Grammar?
2025-04-17 •
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0Breathing Through Your Belly Button
2025-04-03 •
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0Vibe Check UX
2025-03-28 •
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0Interview on People and Blogs
2025-03-11 •
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The text discusses the tragic story of Matsuri Takahashi's karoshi suicide and the toxic work culture in Japan. The author reflects on the impact of this story and shares personal experiences and observations of the oppressive wor...
0Matsuri's Grown-Up World
2025-02-27 • mental health overwork suicide prevention
Matsuri Takahashi, a new employee at Dentsu, a major advertising company in Japan, shared her struggles and pain through her tweets. She expressed her exhaustion, long working hours, and the pressure of being a new employee. Despi...
The text discusses the limitations of rationality in real-world settings, using examples from mathematics and science. It explains how rationality fails at the edge and how different perspectives and assumptions can lead to differ...
Two young men discuss the maxim 'whatever a man or woman was able to accomplish before, you can accomplish, too' and its implications on human potential and achievement. They debate the role of genetics, environment, and historica...
0Year One
2025-02-06 • blogging writing philosophy multidisciplinary collaboration
Aether Mug is a blog that has been active for a year, with 47 posts. The author reflects on the experience of blogging, the challenges, and the rewards. They discuss the philosophical aspects of writing and the joy of connecting w...
0We Need a Sense of Systemic Perspective
2025-01-27 •
The text discusses how people often find situations that are different from their own to be puzzling and irrational. It suggests that this is because humans are not built to see perspectives that are not visual. The text also talk...
0Primitive Atlas of Glass Circuits
2025-01-23 •
The text introduces a model of the world that divides everything into 'stuff' and 'systems'. It discusses the concept of 'differences' and how they interact with systems, and introduces the 'Glass Circuit Chart' to illustrate thes...
0The Luxurious Pain of Using My Time
2025-01-09 •
The text discusses the pain of choosing how to spend time, the author's conscious sacrifice of not following other bloggers' work, and the importance of making deliberate choices to manage time effectively.
0A Kanji Always Pays Her Debts
2024-12-10 •
The author reflects on the benefits of learning Japanese kanji characters, particularly in the context of medical terminology, and how they provide a deeper understanding of compound words and etymology. The text also discusses th...
0See the Living Loops
2024-12-06 •
The text discusses the concept of feedback loops and how they are fundamental to everything we can know and reason about. It provides examples of feedback loops in non-living and living things, emphasizing that feedback loops are ...
0My Head as a Lake
2024-11-28 •
Marie Cosgrove-Davies shares her experience of aphantasia, a condition where she lacks the ability to visualize things in her mind. She describes her journey of self-discovery and how she realized that everyone's cognition is diff...
0A Framing and Model About Framings and Models
2024-11-21 •
The text discusses the concepts of mental models and thinking frameworks, explaining that they are the foundations of human thought. It provides definitions and examples of models and framings, and explains how they are used in va...
0Presenting Visual Koans
2024-11-14 •
The post presents Visual Koans, a web app designed to stimulate creativity by displaying random, meaningless images. The author explains that the app is inspired by their experience in an fMRI machine, where they observed the effe...