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What a damaged, used book taught me about reading
Used books, margins, and footnotes—and why it’s the scribbles that add another dimension
Feb 20
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John Paul Hernandez
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I studied 500 opening lines. Here’s what separates humans from machines.
On earning attention through human storytelling
Feb 13
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John Paul Hernandez
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The freeze test
One night to choose what lives—and what that means about you
Feb 6
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John Paul Hernandez
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January 2026
How going 72 hours without food freed me from control
And why you can’t optimize your way out
Jan 30
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John Paul Hernandez
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Why e-ink is the only tech that won’t make you sick
Platform designs are engineered to hijack your attention. E-ink gives it back.
Jan 23
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John Paul Hernandez
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Why we’re uncomfortable watching people learn
What public struggle reveals about knowledge, status, and growth
Jan 16
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John Paul Hernandez
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On microjournaling
A quiet practice for capturing life as it happens
Jan 9
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John Paul Hernandez
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Why rust isn’t the enemy we think it is
How repair, restraint, and time shape what we choose to keep
Jan 2
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John Paul Hernandez
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December 2025
The books that carried me through 2025
How fiction, history, and presence shaped a difficult and good year
Dec 26, 2025
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John Paul Hernandez
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The discipline of not acting
Why knowing when to pause matters more than knowing what to do
Dec 19, 2025
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John Paul Hernandez
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Jekyll & Hyde was never about a monster. It was about us
How performance, social pressure, and algorithms split us into the selves we show and the selves we hide
Dec 12, 2025
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John Paul Hernandez
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Why great ideas often come from the wrong people
How amateurs, outsiders, and the simply curious expand what experts miss
Dec 5, 2025
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John Paul Hernandez
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