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Jakob Gowell
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Ph.D. student studying motivation (Self-Determination Theory) at OU. Former Peace Corps volunteer.
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Reposted by Jakob Gowell
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October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Seems relevant insofar as that disconnection of discourse from material reality can only stretch so far—not beyond the point discourse interrupts that communication ecosystem. But that is an eventual process, not an immediate one.

E.g. a civil conflict causing destruction of all data centers.
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
For @hypervisible.blacksky.app’s viewing pleasure?
October 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Came to comment this comment, which I now realize has already been commented; deleted my redundant comment.

I still want the @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social response.
October 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Will do. If it was recorded, I’d be interested in a link.
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Some, yes! She teaches in my depart and is married to my advisor.
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Robert Vallerand has a whole research line on obsessive versus harmonius passion!
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
“Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel and tortured the timber and stripped all the land...”

Whose coal company, I wonder.
October 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This also sounds like an emotional regulation issue i.e. can I handle a person receiving a gift not liking it and trust that they’ll receive it well Regardless.
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Whiplash with:
1. Friends, I have a major career update. And it is bittersweet.

My time at Rolling Stone is coming to a close this week.
October 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM