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A plan for a hard hour
Stephen Deason examines the gaps between recovery services, daily obligations, and hard hours, asking who carries the support no organization has assigned.
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Recovery
Writing about the choices, work, and institutions that shape a life in recovery.
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Part II of II
The Bias Blind Spot
Why learning about bias, intelligence, and introspection do not make us much better at seeing our own.
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Motivated Reasoning Produces Good Arguments
Motivated reasoning does not produce flimsy excuses. It produces arguments strong enough to survive inspection.
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Part I of II
Confirmation Bias and the Test You Never Ran
The examples that agree with you cannot answer the question you are actually asking.
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The Disease Model and Blame
Changing the causal story has not been shown to reduce blame. Changing the noun used for a person can.
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Life Goes On: Reflections on 2019
A candid reflection on sobriety, family illness, loneliness, and the work that does not finish.
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