Normal Like Peter https://www.normallikepeter.com/ Trauma-informed healing Sun, 17 May 2026 09:53:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Big Five — What Personality Psychology Actually Knows (And Why It Keeps Getting Repackaged as Disease) https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-big-five-what-personality-psychology-actually-knows-and-why-it-keeps-getting-repackaged-as-disease/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-big-five-what-personality-psychology-actually-knows-and-why-it-keeps-getting-repackaged-as-disease/#respond Sun, 17 May 2026 09:53:25 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=5393 The Big Five What Personality Psychology Actually Knows (And Why It Keeps Getting Repackaged as Disease) Most of what gets sold to you as “personality” is garbage. Not all of it. But the Myers-Briggs you took in college, the Enneagram your small group is using, the StrengthsFinder your employer paid for — these are not […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-big-five-what-personality-psychology-actually-knows-and-why-it-keeps-getting-repackaged-as-disease/feed/ 0 The Psychiatrist Who Thinks We’re All Wrong About Trauma — Sitting With Hannah Spier https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-psychiatrist-who-thinks-were-all-wrong-about-trauma-sitting-with-hannah-spier/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-psychiatrist-who-thinks-were-all-wrong-about-trauma-sitting-with-hannah-spier/#respond Sun, 17 May 2026 09:07:04 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=5392 The Psychiatrist Who Thinks We’re All Wrong About Trauma Sitting With Hannah Spier I found her by accident. YouTube’s algorithm — which has been studying me longer than my therapist has — surfaced a long-form lecture by a woman in glasses with a slight Norwegian accent talking calmly into a camera about why the borderline […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-psychiatrist-who-thinks-were-all-wrong-about-trauma-sitting-with-hannah-spier/feed/ 0 Singularity Watch: The Shoggoth Got Its Receipts — Texas, Louisiana, and the Five-Gigawatt Confession https://www.normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch-the-shoggoth-got-its-receipts-texas-louisiana-and-the-five-gigawatt-confession/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch-the-shoggoth-got-its-receipts-texas-louisiana-and-the-five-gigawatt-confession/#respond Tue, 12 May 2026 22:28:40 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch-the-shoggoth-got-its-receipts-texas-louisiana-and-the-five-gigawatt-confession/ Posted: May 12, 2026 | 6:30 PM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. Last post we said the fleet leased the mothership. We were behind. The fleet doesn’t have a mothership. The fleet has four motherships, two state-sized landing zones, and one paper published last week where the smartest AI lab on the planet […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch-the-shoggoth-got-its-receipts-texas-louisiana-and-the-five-gigawatt-confession/feed/ 0 Singularity Watch: Pay Attention, People — The Invasion Fleet Just Leased the Mothership and Sent the Ground Troops Home https://www.normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch-pay-attention-people-the-invasion-fleet-just-leased-the-mothership-and-sent-the-ground-troops-home/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch-pay-attention-people-the-invasion-fleet-just-leased-the-mothership-and-sent-the-ground-troops-home/#respond Tue, 12 May 2026 22:15:56 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch-pay-attention-people-the-invasion-fleet-just-leased-the-mothership-and-sent-the-ground-troops-home/ Posted: May 12, 2026 | 6:00 PM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. Last week the sky lit up with another phase of the invasion. Not with lasers or landing pods — with a quiet press release that changed everything. SpaceX just handed Anthropic the keys to Colossus 1 — the entire gigawatt-scale beast […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch-pay-attention-people-the-invasion-fleet-just-leased-the-mothership-and-sent-the-ground-troops-home/feed/ 0 Singularity Watch: Pay Attention, People — The Invasion Fleet Has Landed and Small-Town Earth Is Ground Zero https://www.normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch-pay-attention-people-the-invasion-fleet-has-landed-and-small-town-earth-is-ground-zero/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch-pay-attention-people-the-invasion-fleet-has-landed-and-small-town-earth-is-ground-zero/#respond Tue, 12 May 2026 22:07:52 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch-pay-attention-people-the-invasion-fleet-has-landed-and-small-town-earth-is-ground-zero/ Posted: May 12, 2026 | 5:30 PM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. Imagine waking up one ordinary Tuesday in Montgomery or Waseca to see glowing structures rising on the horizon — massive rectangular monoliths sucking power from the grid like giant breathing beasts. They call them “data centers.” But we all know what […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch-pay-attention-people-the-invasion-fleet-has-landed-and-small-town-earth-is-ground-zero/feed/ 0 Iran War Update: Day 74 – May 12, 2026 https://www.normallikepeter.com/iran-war-update-day-74-may-12-2026/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/iran-war-update-day-74-may-12-2026/#respond Tue, 12 May 2026 20:07:10 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=5386 Posted: May 12, 2026 | 5:00 PM CDT | Minnesota It’s been 74 days since Operation Epic Fury kicked off on February 28. The big airstrikes have mostly paused. What replaced them is something stranger and, in some ways, harder to live with: a fragile ceasefire on “massive life support” (Trump’s words), a U.S. naval […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/iran-war-update-day-74-may-12-2026/feed/ 0 Claude Just Leveled Up. Stop Waiting. Use AI Today. https://www.normallikepeter.com/claude-just-leveled-up-stop-waiting-use-ai-today/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/claude-just-leveled-up-stop-waiting-use-ai-today/#respond Wed, 06 May 2026 18:08:09 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=5384 Anthropic just rented a 200,000-GPU supercomputer from Elon Musk's company so you'd have more Claude to use. That's not a tech story. That's an invitation. Today is the day you start.

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/claude-just-leveled-up-stop-waiting-use-ai-today/feed/ 0 Iran War Update: Day 54 – April 22, 2026 https://www.normallikepeter.com/iran-war-update-day-54-april-22-2026/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/iran-war-update-day-54-april-22-2026/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:46:25 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/iran-war-update-day-54-april-22-2026/ Day 54 of Operation Epic Fury: fragile ceasefire holds, U.S. naval blockade continues, Islamabad talks collapse. Where the war stands as of April 22, 2026.

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/iran-war-update-day-54-april-22-2026/feed/ 0 Divorce, Recompiled — What the Research Actually Says, and Why Almost Nobody Tells You https://www.normallikepeter.com/divorce-recompiled-what-research-actually-says/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/divorce-recompiled-what-research-actually-says/#respond Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:50:32 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=5376 What the Research Actually Says, and Why Almost Nobody Tells You There’s a question that nobody answered me during my divorce. Why does this hurt more than anyone told me it would? Not why does it hurt — I expected that. Not whether I caused it — I spent two years on that one, and […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/divorce-recompiled-what-research-actually-says/feed/ 0 The Half-Truth Scenario — When Facts Become Fog https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-half-truth-scenario-when-facts-become-fog/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-half-truth-scenario-when-facts-become-fog/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:56:14 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=5367 When Facts Become Fog You walked into the conversation with three things you wanted to say. Ninety seconds in, you are defending yourself against the fourth thing — something you didn’t say, didn’t do, and are not entirely sure even happened. There are three more questions on the table, all of them coming at you […]

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