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Buster Benson

@busterbenson.com

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Founder of 750words.com. Author of “Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement”. Temporarily human. busterbenson.com

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 18/08/2025

I'm hosting a small salon this weekend on the topic of the nature of reality, and built a fun quiz to help people identify their belief system / understanding of the nature of reality. If you want to help test it out and let me know if it works for you or not, try it here: cosmology-quiz.vercel.app

Shows the results page for my own cosmology: Buddhist Mind-Only. A couple charts and lists.

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 20/07/2025

I reached the first milestone of basically re-writing the entire frontend of 750words.com via vibe coding, upgrading the frameworks and adding a few big features. It ultimately led to 86k lines of code that I chatted into existence.

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 19/03/2025

Quick question! At first glance, can you read this latest version of the #quirkyclock: busterbenson.com/clock If not, can you let me know which aspect is challenging to wrap your head around? (Note: it's meant to be disorienting, so don't feel bad if it makes no sense or hurts your head.)

A clock showing the sun, moon, and planets.

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 31/01/2025

I was excited to see a mention of “Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement” from @adamgrant.bsky.social today. Unfortunately it turns out that unproductive disagreement is still quite prevalent in this world…

Screenshot of Instagram post by Adam Grant that mentions my book

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 24/01/2025

Does this make sense to anyone? Continuing to try to create a nature-based calendar that organizes around lunar cycles (moonths) instead of months in a way that invites curiosity without breaking brains. Lots of planets in the night sky right now! Have you seen Venus???

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 13/01/2025

Made it to the end just before sunset! Then my legs literally turned into concrete.

Sarah and Buster at the end of the SF crosstown trail at Land’s End

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 12/01/2025

First fun find

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 09/12/2024

This has been a fun little project. 750words.com now has two "competing" word-of-the-day groups, where people get a word every day from either Merriam Webster or Wordnik and are encouraged to use the word in their journaling. The number below is how many people have used the word so far.

Screenshot of a box from 750words.com that shows two different words of the day and how many people have written about each of them.

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 02/12/2024

If anyone asks me which day of the year the sun sets right in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge as seen from my bedroom window, I will now know to say December 1st. And, another day about 40 days from now when it’s headed north again after the WINTER solstice. Jan 9th or 10th?

Sunset in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 21/11/2024

My latest attempt at overthrowing the oppressive Gregorian Calendar with a nature-based calendar system I'm calling Moonths. Still in the playing-around-with-different-frameworks step, trying to capture the idea of time being connected to the phases of the moon and to the sky in general.

Image depicting a moonth from Dec 1st - Dec 29th in a spiral format

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 15/11/2024

Can we make this the social network for pretty sky pictures?

Photo of the sky facing west, dramatic clouds, fuzzy sunbeams

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 14/11/2024

Any ideas why it says I have an invalid handle? It seemed okay yesterday.

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 07/11/2024

Tiny milestone alert! We just passed 2000 people writing on the new 750words.com in the past 24 hours. If you need a private place to vent about... stuff... come check it out.

Screenshot of 750words.com showing that 2,006 people have written 1,582,725 words in the last 24 hours.

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 21/10/2024

As an amateur sunset appreciator, I’ve been surprised to observe in the Bay Area that there are almost no good sunsets between spring and fall, and almost no bad sunsets between fall and spring. Is this: A) a known phenomenon B) a fluke of the last year C) a conspiracy D) other (please specify)

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Buster Benson @busterbenson.com · 02/03/2023

Obligatory cat photo hi

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