https://www.shawnconn.com/tags/introspective en https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/reading <article role="article" class="blog is-promoted teaser clearfix"><h2> <a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/reading" rel="bookmark"><span>Reading</span> </a> </h2> <footer><div class="author"> Submitted by <span><span>Shawn Conn</span></span> on <span>Sun, 06/20/2010 - 00:07</span> </div> </footer><div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> I love reading. Being so ubiquitous, we take it for granted how useful it is. For English, all we need is less than 40 distinct written symbols for us to convey practically every thought imaginable. We can express our thoughts and feelings, communicate events, describe how our world works just with abstract symbols. Even with all stuff mankind has created, the written language is still one of its top inventions; without it most other great inventions aren't possible.All this shit should be obvious to anyone reading it, but it's worth repeating.</p></div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/reading" rel="tag" title="Reading" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Reading</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul></div> </article> Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:07:27 +0000 Shawn Conn 85 at https://www.shawnconn.com https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/can-t-think-of-a-better-way-than-to-say-self-reflecting <article role="article" class="blog is-promoted teaser clearfix"><h2> <a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/can-t-think-of-a-better-way-than-to-say-self-reflecting" rel="bookmark"><span>Can't Think Of A Better Way Than To Say Self-Reflecting</span> </a> </h2> <footer><div class="author"> Submitted by <span><span>Shawn Conn</span></span> on <span>Mon, 10/12/2009 - 02:49</span> </div> </footer><div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>It seems like all I ever blog about these days is odd-ball metaphysical, meta-cognition, arm chair philosphy stuff. As much as I love talking and writing about that, I'll change it up...This time, I'll start off with some candor about my life, ramble on about some other subject, <em>then I'll blog about some odd-ball metaphysical stuff.</em> Sounds good? Let's beginning.</p></div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/can-t-think-of-a-better-way-than-to-say-self-reflecting" rel="tag" title="Can't Think Of A Better Way Than To Say Self-Reflecting" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Can't Think Of A Better Way Than To Say Self-Reflecting</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul></div> </article> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:49:29 +0000 Shawn Conn 74 at https://www.shawnconn.com