[Almost everything I've written seems wrong now](https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/almost-everything-ive-written-seems) > I am a lot happier and more productive when I think of \[my writing] as a sacrifice, or offering. Different creatures emit differently, and this is the effluvium I naturally produce. Here I lay my thoughts like a body left in a field for the pleasure of vultures. If what I produce is wrong, let the reader who knows better feel the pleasurable warmth of self-righteousness. If what I produce is shameful, I hope that the vicarious shame felt by my readers will help them crystallize their values. > >Some people organize their lives based on trying to avoid regrets later on. I think that’s crazy. I don’t want to act today in order to appease the elderly tyrant who inherits my bone structure and legal identity. That person can blame their embarrassment on me if they want to, such is the generosity of my offering. I’m not going to deny them that. [How to like everything more](https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/how-to-like-everything-more) > Recently at a celebratory dinner, I had a fish crudo with oat milk, jalapeno, snow, and mint that somehow wasn’t disgusting, and I can recall a medium-fidelity impression of it now, for a few free happiness points, because I took a snapshot then. Every snapshot you take enhances your future ability to do this. #memory