Agenty Duck

1 Jan 2026

I'm now blogging at Substack. [My Substack](https://loganstrohl.substack.com/) deliberately avoids sticking to any particular topic or genre. Some of it is reminiscent of Agenty Duck, but I also post

24 Sep 2023

I'll begin with some context-setting. If you want to skip to the main event, start at "It's now been about one month." First, a caveat: I did not start with a baseline female endocrine profile when

9 Jul 2023

Hey guess what I have a kid now! Yes really. Their name is Cadence, and they were born on June 20th, 2023. It was rad. There's a whole bunch of stuff about it [on my

27 Jun 2023

Man I am so very overdue for this post. I have been working for the past year on a second sequence in the series that started with "[Intro to

3 Aug 2022

I have a chocolate blog! Mostly I just post my tasting notes there, but sometimes I say more stuff too. This time I said a whole bunch of stuff, because I tasted the same chocolate every day for a

24 Feb 2022

*I've written an entire sequence introducing "naturalism", and I've just finished publishing it on LessWrong. You can see the whole thing at [this

12 Nov 2021

I've got an essay up at LessWrong that definitely belongs here as well, but that's where it's all nicely formatted so I'm just gonna

1 Oct 2021

**1. Read one random sentence of a history textbook and pick out the most mind-numbing phrases.** I'll go first. "In 1958, Heinrich Berlin published a detailed analysis of inscriptions on the

17 Jul 2021

One of the assignments I very often suggest to students of naturalism is "be bored". I'm exaggerating a little when I put it that way. I don't actually mean that painful experiences of weary

8 Jul 2021

In May and June of 2021, I ran an online nature study course with about two dozen participants. I had three goals: 1. Help people create or deepen a personal connection with nature. 2. Learn how to

16 Jun 2021

I think the reason I sat on [that last post](http://agentyduck.blogspot.com/2021/06/how-to-get-poetry.html) for two years is because I said what I think people are doing wrong, and I said what the

16 Jun 2021

\[I wrote this in 2019, and just decided to post it here. Then I made [a follow-up post](https://agentyduck.blogspot.com/2021/06/how-to-get-poetry-part-2.html).] Someone observed to me the other day

14 May 2021

I struggle a lot with mornings. If I'm not very careful about what I do in the hour or two after I first wake up, I become extremely stressed and anxious. It's as though my mind has to take some time

25 Apr 2021

Starting May 16th, I'm running a nature study course called "Original Seeing With a Focus On Life". In one month of study, we'll become better naturalists. EDIT: This round of the course is all full

30 Jan 2021

Linkpost: I've got a new essay about curiosity and naturalism [over at LessWrong](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9cbEPEuCa9E7uHMXT/catching-the-spark)!

24 Aug 2020

Great question, thanks for asking! I've been wondering that for a while myself. In short, I think that it’s wonderful, and I’m worried it’s ruining everything. What is free verse? Actually,

29 Dec 2019

I wrote up my shame processing method. I think it comes from some combination of Max (inspired by NVC maybe?), Anna (mostly indirectly), and a lot of trial and error. I've been using it for a couple

27 Nov 2019

### What It’s Like While remembering a recent discussion with a friend, I find myself feeling grateful. There’s warmth in my chest. I have an image of watery light radiating out of my upper

14 Jul 2019

One of the best things I've added to my repertoire of study tools is trying to learn the aesthetic taste of the author. When I feel something in the vicinity of disagreement with X, I write a little

7 Jul 2019

A friend who is interested in building muscle told me, “I’m curious how you relate to the pain of doing exercise.” I asked them what they meant by “pain” in this case, and they seemed

2 Oct 2018

### 1. This post will make no sense at all if you don’t know what “Focusing” is. Focusing is a method of making info from squishy automatic cognitive processes accessible to deliberate

29 Sep 2018

Starting last weekend and going until March, I’ll be spending every other weekend in yoga teacher training, learning how to be a yoga instructor. I have a lot of reasons for doing this, one of

22 Aug 2018

When I was in Indiana, I took dozens of snapshots of a slide. This slide.

8 Aug 2018

*Most of the ideas in this post come from the book* Being A Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell *by Alexandra Horowitz, which is my favorite nonfiction book I’ve read in a long time. She,

28 Dec 2017

### meditate on… - What have I gained in the past year? In what ways do I feel augmented compared to the self I remember from this time last year? How do I feel about that? - What have I lost in