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Noahie Valk
Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings. Divided into two sections. 1) Cogito: a diary and 2) IOKTIKN: a collection of standalone essays and short stories.
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I've been thinking more about how easy it is for me to become too distractible and procrastinate on writing. Writing itself is such a cognitively "expensive" task, and while it is rewarding to do it, many of us still contend with the...
I read this article posted by a friend in a Discord server earlier this morning. To summarize, the article is a several-thousand-word diatribe on younger white males becoming ostracized from prestigious institutions. The writer (a...
At this moment in human history, we find ourselves in a paradox: the present moment floods us constantly, yet slips away more easily than ever. There is so much going on all the time and all at once, making it a persistent challenge to...
Something that I've been thinking about lately: there is an immense difference in most prose written in the 21st century as opposed to the 18th-20th centuries. This is an obvious observation, but to me this difference is something that...
I had another night of horrible sleep last night. This time around, I had several nightmares throughout the course of the night. Unfortunately, this is a rather common occurrence these days. Usually the nightmares consist of demonic...
I had another extended hiatus. Last weekend was the final of my best friends' weddings. Once that was all said and done, I got sick and have been dealing with that for the past week. I've mostly been sleeping all day and dealing with...
My thoughts have been getting slower, less pronounced. More than that though, there are fewer novel things for me to say as I write more in this public diary every day. I, like many others, have thoughts that get repeated over and over...
I am back after a brief hiatus. I was getting burned out on writing every single day and decided to use the holiday as an excuse to take a break. I feel that I had lost some momentum because I wanted to get started again earlier, but...
I'm feeling uninspired to write today, but that's no excuse not to write. Something will come out of today's entry, but I'm not sure exactly what that will be. Over the last several months, I've been expounding my thoughts on things and...
I held off writing a bit today, mostly due to distractions and socializing. But I'm back to the grindstone sharpening the proverbial blade. I have been circulating back to my thoughts on this post and I believe that I have found the...
I've been reflecting on my sense of masculinity after having some interesting discussions on it. I recently learned an interesting theory on the psychology behind "the ick," which is basically just something that a man does that makes a...
I've been getting better about the discipline of coming here and writing closer to first thing in the morning. I have my routines that I do: supplements, brush hair, brush teeth, deodorant, caffeine, toast. But then once all of that is...
I'm confronted with a direct reality: I don't have anything particular on my mind I want to write about. I've done what I can to cultivate habits and routines to get the spark of writing something every day, but even when I make all my...
I don't want to write today. I really don't. There's such little payoff to doing this, but I've put myself in this box where this is all I'm letting myself do. In my mind, there's a sense of delayed gratification, that all of this...
When I woke up this morning, I had a very interesting feeling. I typically set my alarm for 8 AM. Due to the fact that I don't have a job or any major obligations or responsibilities and the fact that I hate being alive and because of my...