# excuse (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover excuse. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Psychology of Aging Parents: How to Help Without Taking Over Their Lives?](https://quietdisciplined.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-aging-parents-how) _2026-08-19 · Quiet Discipline · Quiet Discipline_ Independence, Dignity, Role Changes, and the Emotional Complexity of Caring for Parents ## [The Art of Preventing Regret](https://quietdisciplined.substack.com/p/the-art-of-preventing-regret) _2026-08-17 · Quiet Discipline · Quiet Discipline_ You cannot control every outcome, but you can make choices that your future self will not have to apologize for. ## [The Emotional Logic of Excuses](https://quietdisciplined.substack.com/p/the-emotional-logic-of-excuses) _2026-08-14 · Quiet Discipline · Quiet Discipline_ An excuse can protect your feelings today while quietly protecting the problem that will trouble you tomorrow. ## [Neuroscience of Memory: How to Support Better Recall?](https://quietdisciplined.substack.com/p/neuroscience-of-memory-how-to-support) _2026-08-12 · Quiet Discipline · Quiet Discipline_ Retrieval Shape the Brain’s Ability to Remember ## [The Foundations of Human Self-Control](https://quietdisciplined.substack.com/p/the-foundations-of-human-self-control) _2026-08-10 · Quiet Discipline · Quiet Discipline_ Self-control begins in the moment when you realize that an impulse is asking for action, but does not have the authority to decide. ## [Neuroscience of Healthy Aging](https://quietdisciplined.substack.com/p/neuroscience-of-healthy-aging) _2026-08-07 · Quiet Discipline · Quiet Discipline_ The Science Behind Staying Mentally Sharp ## [Emotional Freedom: How to Stop Feeling Responsible?](https://quietdisciplined.substack.com/p/emotional-freedom-how-to-stop-feeling) _2026-08-05 · Quiet Discipline · Quiet Discipline_ The Psychology of Over-Responsibility, Boundaries, and Letting Go Without Losing Compassion ## [The Myth of Natural Willpower](https://quietdisciplined.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-natural-willpower) _2026-08-03 · Quiet Discipline · Quiet Discipline_ The strongest willpower is usually the one that has been trained, not the one that was inherited ## [Why Controlled Lives Feel Boring?](https://quietdisciplined.substack.com/p/why-controlled-lives-feel-boring) _2026-07-31 · Quiet Discipline · Quiet Discipline_ Peace often feels boring to a mind that has become addicted to chaos. ## [The Neuroscience Approach to Staying Sharp, Calm, and Mentally Active](https://quietdisciplined.substack.com/p/the-neuroscience-approach-to-staying) _2026-07-29 · Quiet Discipline · Quiet Discipline_ The healthiest brain is not the one that works the hardest. It is the one that knows when to focus, when to recover, and how to keep adapting. ## [AI Summaries & Audio Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/RnvgSqTwwVTb) _2026-07-29 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to concise audio briefings for the latest stories. ## [rivet](https://mrcat.au/projects/rivet/) _2026-02-01 · TheOnlyMrCat_ Rivet is a toy RISC-V emulator I made as an excuse to learn Zig. As of now, it implements the RV64GC architecture, with an interpreted core written in Zig. The core has access to a few virtual devices through MMIO, including a serial port, real-time clock, hard drive, and ethernet adapter. This is enough to boot and run Linux! Usage The CLI requires exactly one file argument: either an ELF or a… ## [Teaching an emulator how to talk](https://mrcat.au/blog/how_to_devices/) _2025-06-23 · TheOnlyMrCat_ In the previous blog post , we made a RV64GC emulator that can pass all the architecture tests. Which is very cool in and of itself, but being able to run tests doesn’t necessarily mean we can run actual software. And in this case, we are v e r y very far away from being able to run something like Linux on this thing, so let’s start making progress towards that. What you might have realised with… ## [Almost Always Megabytes](https://mrcat.au/blog/almost_always_megabytes/) _2025-02-01 · TheOnlyMrCat_ Most of you reading this would be familiar with the SI prefixes. They’re those things that you put in front of unit names to make them bigger and smaller. 1 km = 1000 m, 1 MPa = 1 000 000 Pa, etc. They’re super easy to use. So why don’t we use them in computer science? First, a quiz Ok, that’s half a lie. We do use them in computer science. But we also don’t use them. And we sometimes get confused…