# Am I doing this right?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Commons\ **Created:** [June 25, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/am-i-doing-this-right/7977 "2026-06-25T22:10:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![larsenclose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/larsenclose/32/8839_2.png) [@larsenclose](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/larsenclose)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/am-i-doing-this-right/7977/1 "2026-06-25T22:10:18Z")
Hi, I just finished and published an essay and thought I would share. The essay is about the default failure(s) to know oneself common to contemporary minds, and calls for the thinking it forecloses. I think this is maybe in the correct-ish place for this?! > **[Response-Ability](https://zenodo.org/records/20856283)** > > Self-understanding can be held from two sources: descriptions the world supplies, absorbed and returned as if from inside, or questions put to oneself where the one answering is at stake. First is the default: public interpretedness, consensus view,... ---
**Author:** ![larsenclose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/larsenclose/32/8839_2.png) [@larsenclose](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/larsenclose)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 2:21am UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/am-i-doing-this-right/7977/2 "2026-07-25T02:21:49Z")
Realized I am a bit behind on sharing, this essay, Invidia was inspired by.. well… take a guess > **[Invidia](https://zenodo.org/records/21142959)** > > A world that has lost the ground of absolute worth levels its own height by reflex, and the reflex is visible whole in one feeling: to look upon another’s excellence and feel diminished. Invidia, the hostile looking, is sorrow at a good that takes... ---
**Author:** ![madrush](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/madrush/32/6452_2.png) [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 7:18am UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/am-i-doing-this-right/7977/3 "2026-07-25T07:18:45Z")
All I can think of is Bob Dylan… I want to be so good. ---
**Author:** ![larsenclose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/larsenclose/32/8839_2.png) [@larsenclose](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/larsenclose)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/am-i-doing-this-right/7977/4 "2026-07-25T21:45:50Z")
Hahah, not wrong - certainly an influence! Also finished and published this one yesterday: > **[Fascination](https://zenodo.org/records/21539261)** > > Readability and gameability are one property; their common ground is irreducible interiority. This essay traces fascination — attention captured by a completion that renews itself — from beauty’s first arrival in Scarry’s reading of Odysseus and the... All three of these shares thus far have been philosophical pieces which are hyper dense and endeavor towards self-reflexive performance of the terrain they cover and so are knowingly challenging reads, I am/do try to make them as accessible as possible but if the destination or goal requires transformation there might not yet be good ways around these difficulties, maybe we can improve this. Fascination is about beauty in large part and contains photos/images to help ground and land where it felt called for. My hope here was that the images help in the intimated way. I had a very sharp friend respond to my sharing Fascination with him with a 4,000 word document teaching how to write in such a way that organizes around and prioritizes the attention constrained nature of readers. It was a remarkably precise illustration of some of the content covered within the paper, which we refuses to even begin reading 🤣 which is fine, there’s zero expectation.