annie's blog
annie's blog
Annie Mueller
Besides writing overly personal essays and making blanket statements which I’ll later regret, I love reading, dancing, hiking, hanging with my friends, sitting on my balcony, getting confused about CSS, and trying to go on longer runs without dying. I’m a single mom with a small herd of teenagers. I think trees are really cool. Give me all the soft cheeses and red wine. Okay, fine, the hard cheeses, too. I enjoy live music, puns, outdoor dining, a good challenge, rainy days, thrift stores, witty humor, traveling, sandwiches, new words, the ocean, and driving with the windows down. I'm trying to learn German and not forget Spanish. I am a big fan of belly laughs, honesty, and the serial comma. And sleep.
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If your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can. — Marcus Aurelius What we learn as children programs us in certain ways. These programs run subconsciously. They determine our default emotional responses to everything...
Any future perfectly known, said Alan Watts, is already the past. But life is not in the past. Life is now, life is here, life is this moment. The only way to live it is to be as truthful as you can be. With others, of course. But mostly...
Our very brains, our human nature, our desire for comfort, our habits, our social structures, all of it, pushes us into being fish bowl swimmers. Tiny people moving in tiny circles. Staying in the circumscribed ruts of our comfort....
After reading1 the recent news about the unsurprising lack of diversity in podcasting — 64% of the hosts of the most popular US podcasts of 2024 were men…Shows with video are more likely to have male hosts; the worst gender balance is...
I was feeling sad and overwhelmed and unmoored yesterday so after work I didn’t go to the gym or get groceries or any of the other things I should do. Instead I...
All systems have rules. Understanding and applying the rules well is different than memorizing and obeying the rules perfectly. “Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in...
Have you ever played Duck Duck Goose1 and the person who’s it keeps walking and walking and walking and walking around and never picks the goose? It’s really boring. There...
11Seeds are shitty little bastards. You put them in the ground. Nothing happens. You water. You watch. You pull weeds. Nothing happens. You wait. You water. You watch. Nothing happens....
On the joy of making arbitrary small rules for yourself which you can break at will but which also might help you steer your own obstinate behavior a bit more...
I need to get back on the monthly routine because I’m squinting back at August like Uuuuuuuuuuh I vaguely remember it so anyway let’s see how this goes. Piglet by Lottie...
But I am who I am and these two small very small really inconsequential things enrage me so here we are 1. When the Login link/button opens the login page...
A mental model or set of values starts as a shelter from the unrelenting chaos of reality. We need these shelters. Living without them isn’t really possible. We can’t take...
This blog is on Pika. Part of having a Pika blog is having (if you want it) a guestbook. I have it, I want it, I fucking love it. I...
Friction is a force of resistance. Overcoming friction takes energy. More friction takes more energy. Reducing friction frees up energy.
I love a habit. I adore a routine. Doing things in a certain order, or certain time, or certain way. Over and over. I love the dependability. I love the resonance, the echo, the beat. I love the surprising power. Layering one small...