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Tessa Schlesinger - Stoic. Published 60 years.
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·2 days ago

Jack Reacher — An Unusual Character

The things that make Lee Child’s lead character (and stories) so fascinatingly readable. How does he do it? I’m reading my second Jack Reacher novel in two days. I got lucky. A new store has opened in our local shopping mall. You can take books that you have and swop…

Jack Reacher

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Jack Reacher — An Unusual Character
Jack Reacher — An Unusual Character
Jack Reacher

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Published in Tessa’s Web-log

·5 days ago

The New Warfare : The Destruction of Western Minds

Cognitive warfare has been around for some time… —

Cognitive Warfare

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The New Warfare : The Destruction of Western Minds
The New Warfare : The Destruction of Western Minds
Cognitive Warfare

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Published in Tessa’s Web-log

·Mar 18

How to Set a Foundation for Your Life

Self-help that matters. Like many other people out there, I went through a period of reading self-help books. Somewhere between five and eight years after I started reading them, I stopped reading them. …

Tessa Schlesing

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How to Set a Foundation for Your Life
How to Set a Foundation for Your Life
Tessa Schlesing

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Published in Tessa’s Web-log

·Mar 17

Considering Writing Articles on Self-Help…

After all, I won’t be here to defend myself, will I? :) Jokes aside, my subscription finishes on the 28th March — 8 days from now. I won’t be able to read anymore, and I think a great many people will be very happy to see the last of me…

Self Help

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Considering Writing Articles on Self-Help…
Considering Writing Articles on Self-Help…
Self Help

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Mar 1

Claps, Compliments, and Writing on Medium

From an old pro… — Writers Every now and then I read an article by someone on Medium about the importance of claps. I am told that one clap is an insult, and that one shouldn’t bother to clap if one is only going to give one clap. …

Substack

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Claps, Compliments, and Writing on Medium
Claps, Compliments, and Writing on Medium
Substack

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Published in They Weren’t Triffids

·Feb 20

Book 4. The Rise of the Hive God

He shrunk to a dragon, and then he took the lives of men. — In earth mythology, a serpent with four legs is a dragon. They got that wrong. A true dragon has six legs, and its face is that of a cat with very, very large fangs. …

Serial

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Book 4. The Rise of the Hive God
Book 4. The Rise of the Hive God
Serial

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Feb 6

Now Publishing on SubStack

Yes, I know. You told me so! —

Ko Fi

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Now Publishing on Substack
Now Publishing on Substack
Ko Fi

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Published in Tessa’s Web-log

·Jan 31

Why Shadow Banning Will End Democracy

The practice of silencing the opposition does not sit well with classic liberals. — I have always had a powerful voice. Perhaps it is due to excessive thinking, or perhaps it’s due to the genius that has been said to be mine. …

Media

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Why Shadow Banning Will End Democracy
Why Shadow Banning Will End Democracy
Media

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Published in Tessa’s Web-log

·Jan 29

Foresight — the Missing Piece that Humans Lack

Average intelligence does not have it. — For the most part, human beings lack the ability to extrapolate what their current choices will bring forth in the future. Some are better at it than others, when it comes to their personal choices. They can, for instance, determine that if they refuse to do their job, they will…

Floods

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Foresight — the Missing Piece that Humans Lack
Foresight — the Missing Piece that Humans Lack
Floods

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Jan 28

My Final Update on My Health

So yesterday I went to the dermatologist… Hi guys, Thank you for bearing with me during a very difficult month. Yesterday, I finally got to see someone about the big ‘growth’ underneath my arm. It turns out that it wasn’t a wart. It was a very big cyst — in…

Tessa Schlesinger

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My Final Update on My Health
My Final Update on My Health
Tessa Schlesinger

2 min read

Tessa Schlesinger - Stoic. Published 60 years.

Tessa Schlesinger - Stoic. Published 60 years.

4.8K Followers

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