Octopusyarn

Contact Improvisation with Alfred Adler

An essay about listening, written on the floor

Aug 13 • Octopusyarn

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July 2026

You Are a Type of Guy

How I learned to stop competing and love hot yoga

Jul 30 • Octopusyarn

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Real Democracy Hasn’t Been Tried

Voting is what democracy does when it fails

Jul 16 • Octopusyarn

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8

3

Making a Self is Making a God

Why God needs your mistakes

Jul 2 • Octopusyarn

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10

18

June 2026

Do it for the plot

Falling into meaning

Jun 18 • Octopusyarn

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Don't Be More Ambitious

Megalomania, done right

Jun 4 • Octopusyarn

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May 2026

Swiping Made You Forget Umami

Markets are tongues

May 21 • Octopusyarn

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A Bro’s Place is the Kitchen

Ashwagandha, Perineum Sunning, and Grandma's Cigarette

May 7 • Octopusyarn

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8

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April 2026

Follow the Resistance

A Crooked Essay on Will

Apr 23 • Octopusyarn and Layman Pascal

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7

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Cyborgs Will Kill the Corporation

On Excorporations and the Death of the Firm

Apr 9 • Octopusyarn

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10

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March 2026

You are a Donut

On love, loss, and topology

Mar 26 • Octopusyarn

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Your Altruism is Selfish

Egoists, Activists, and the Intelligence of Desire

Mar 12 • Octopusyarn

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