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Happy Sunday, y'all! Although we are a couple weeks into the Spring season, it is still chilly in my neck of the woods. I am definitely looking forward to consistently warmer weather, which should be just around the bend. I have gathered some of my favorite articles from the past week and compiled them into the following list of links. Hopefully this will become a regular staple post that you can look forward to each week. Without further ado, here is what captured my attention the past week.
1. "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" by Philip K. Dick, 1978 —via deoxy.org. PKD wrestles with two of the major themes of his novels: "What is reality?" and "What is the authentic human?".
2. Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can't Guess — via The Intercept. If you're worried about your stored data being stolen by the NSA, this article explains how to use Diceware to generate a passphrase that can survive the NSA's trillion-guess-per-second cracking attempts while still being simple enough to remember.
3. The 10 Key Attributes Top Earning Freelance Bloggers Share — via Leaving Work Behind. One of my favorite freelance blogging blogs covers the most important skills that successful freelance bloggers need to thrive in the blogosphere.
4. Quick and Easy Chickpea Scramble — via Choosing Raw. This scrumptious recipe from Gena Hamshaw places the humble chickpea in the spotlight in a simple scramble featuring veggies, turmeric and other spices, and nutritional yeast.
5. I Did "Psychedelic First Aid" at a Festival in Costa Rica — via Fest300. A experiential description of the work that The Zendo Project (a group based in Santa Cruz, California, that provides a safe space for people having difficult psychedelic experiences and other emotional or personal challenges at festivals) performed at the 2015 Envision Festival.
6. The Lost Will and Testament of Javier Grillo-Marxuach — via The Grillo-Marxuach Experimental Design Bureau. One of the writers of the television show Lost writes down his recollections of the early days of writing the show. The piece is a nice walk down 4815162342 Lost Memories Lane, if you know what I mean.
That's all for this week's Weekend Thoughts post. I hope you have enjoyed the articles and I look forward to feeding you more next week.