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First of all - thank you for sharing this. 

It resonates a lot and I have recently also wrote about my process of developing self-love over the past year. What I found interesting was that the act of loving myself was actually not that hard when I intentionally put my head and heart to it. What was much harder (both intellectually and emotionally) was understanding why I stopped loving myself in the first place - and what role it played in my life until then. Why it felt like such an alien skill, why no one ever talked to me about it before. Current ta... (read more)

But the price of shielding yourself from criticism is that you are cast into solitude—the solitude that William James admired as the core of religious experience, as if loneliness were a good thing.

I was surprised by the conflation of words solitude and loneliness here.  

I'd say solitude is just a state of being alone while loneliness is an interpretation (usually negative) of that state by a person. 

It's not uncommon for people who are serious about their personal growth/thinking for themselves/creating things to seek solitude as a way of c... (read more)

Singaporean government released their own Trace Together app last week and they're now working to open-source it.

Pros:

• uses Bluetooth to track proximity between the user's phones and notifies anyone who has been in vicinity of someone who tested positive (there is an interesting story here on how they had to first overcome the issue of varying Bluetooth strength based on phone models)
• does not collect personal information (a consent is needed upfront)
• does not capture GPS data
• installed by 620,000 users (as of 23 March) which is roughly 11% of Sin