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Lauren Reiff
Lauren Reiff

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I have appreciated developing my writing voice on Medium over the past three and a half years. But all good things cannot go on forever, yes? Regrettably, Medium does not serve me as well as it once did. (I know others can relate!) While I have faithfully contributed here for…

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Bye for a bit :)
Bye for a bit :)

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The Shadow

·Aug 15, 2022

The Modern Necessity for Digital Self-Regulation

As the 21st-century ripens and technological creep advances, we as modern citizens face new challenges. No longer plagued by the material primitivity of earlier ages, increasingly we are besieged by excess instead. Enter the rather cosmopolitan trend of dopamine fasting, the practice of temporarily abstaining from addictive digital products. Conscious…

Society

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The Modern Necessity for Digital Self-Regulation
The Modern Necessity for Digital Self-Regulation
Society

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Dialogue & Discourse

·Jul 14, 2022

Inflation Origins & the Morality of Money

Though we are certainly not spared ominous montages of American gas pumps throughout our daily digital treks, planted before that flickering screen ourselves, watching the numbers blink higher and higher, still feels jarring. …

Economics

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Inflation Origins & the Morality of Money
Inflation Origins & the Morality of Money
Economics

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The Shadow

·Jun 11, 2022

The Public Loathing of Amber Heard

Over the past month the American masses have been drawn like flies to the contentious defamation trial between Hollywood actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Beamed in to living rooms every weekday and cut-and-pasted into innumerable (and often snarkily edited) video clips that achieved instant virality, the trial became a…

Psychology

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The Public Loathing of Amber Heard
The Public Loathing of Amber Heard
Psychology

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Dialogue & Discourse

·May 11, 2022

Orwellian Bellyfeel & Trendy Causes

Early in the morning of March 14, famed technologist Elon Musk made waves on Twitter by posting his Ukrainian-themed “I support the current thing” meme. As controversial memes are wont to do, off it happily galloped into the land of virality. …

Philosophy

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Orwellian Bellyfeel & Trendy Causes
Orwellian Bellyfeel & Trendy Causes
Philosophy

7 min read


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Dialogue & Discourse

·Feb 26, 2022

Trudeau, Authoritarian Regressions, & Language Games

When Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced the imminent sweep of his government’s Emergency Act on February 14, he stood before Parliament — several stone-faced, mask-clad public officials fidgeting behind him and in soft, schoolmarm tones he proceeded to spin webs of language silk to frame a story of unprovoked…

Politics

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Trudeau, Authoritarian Regressions, & Language Games
Trudeau, Authoritarian Regressions, & Language Games
Politics

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Science and Philosophy

·Feb 13, 2022

The Beauty of Radical Wonder

I have written in the past on the hypnotically dreamy childhood experience, in which hungry curiosity mingled with innocent delight. As children we encountered the world with fresh eyes, a thin slate of preconceptions, and shameless pleasure. …

Self

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The Beauty of Radical Wonder
The Beauty of Radical Wonder
Self

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The Shadow

·Feb 4, 2022

A Good Witch/Bad Witch Story of Big Tech

The tech revolution that has bowed our heads to our smartphones and unfurled reality onto the virtual plane is imbued with all the mythic dualism of good and evil. One side is a light-dappled frontier of beautiful freedom; the other side an inky, rigidified specter of enslavement and exploitation. …

Philosophy

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A Good Witch/Bad Witch Story of Big Tech
A Good Witch/Bad Witch Story of Big Tech
Philosophy

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Invisible Illness

·Jan 29, 2022

A Theory of Psychological Inflammation-Reduction

Battling uncertainty, inefficiency, and non-alignment — We know what biological inflammation is — flare-ups of pain and swelling running the gamut from quotidian activities like skinning your knee to hospital-plopping ailments like pneumonia. …

Psychology

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A Theory of Psychological Inflammation-Reduction
A Theory of Psychological Inflammation-Reduction
Psychology

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Science and Philosophy

·Jan 12, 2022

God, Intuition, & William James

I have long suspected that the sheer endurance of religion through millennia is a powerful stamp of validation to the idea of God. In this time-lapse view of humanity, the collective-unconscious shines through. …

Philosophy

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God, Intuition, & William James
God, Intuition, & William James
Philosophy

7 min read

Lauren Reiff

Lauren Reiff

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Writer of economics, psychology, and lots in between. laurennreiff@gmail.com / I moved! Find me here: laurenreiff.substack.com

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