The Archive

Notes, essays, and occasional detours.

A running collection of Francis Sopper’s writing on cognition, attention, work, relationships, and the curious ways our minds make sense of the world.

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Change

"100 years? All new people."

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Ten Years

The good news is: I still have a lot to learn.

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Simple -- Not at all easy

"Be born to different parents," my psychiatrist said.

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Our Brain Barely Works

How wrong we often are about some life experience.

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Left-Lateral-Neuromuscular Disorder

You have a frontier to explore.

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I've Lost Track of Time

I'm well aware of what the clock says and what it has been saying for the last hour or so

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LLM's Precise Certainty

What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses, and birds.

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Precision Guesswork

The best musicians have something analogous.

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Stress Test

Travel is stress testing my cognitive processes.

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Your Toaster Might Make You Happy

As much as toasters have brought me happiness over a lifetime of relationships with them, I never felt the urge to thank one.