# make break — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover make break. Page: Feed: --- ## [If your child has Ivy League dreams, they need to answer this question](https://grownandflown.substack.com/p/if-your-child-has-ivy-league-dreams) _2026-08-18 · Grown and Flown_ Parental leave: This is when we REALLY need it ## [How to plan a college visit: 16 great tips from a former dean](https://grownandflown.substack.com/p/how-to-plan-a-college-visit-16-great-4d8) _2026-08-11 · Grown and Flown_ Can the secret for raising teens be a parent’s own tolerance for distress? ## [25 things every teen needs to know before leaving home](https://grownandflown.substack.com/p/25-things-every-teen-needs-to-know) _2026-08-04 · Grown and Flown_ A kind college: One parent embarks on a different type of school search ## [10 things I’m teaching my sons about life](https://grownandflown.substack.com/p/10-things-im-teaching-my-sons-about) _2026-07-28 · Grown and Flown_ The edge of 17 is here and it’s weighing heavily on me ## [Advice for teens who have friend problems](https://grownandflown.substack.com/p/advice-for-teens-who-have-friend-847) _2026-07-21 · Grown and Flown_ I have five teens and I am surviving but barely ## [5 skills teens really need before they leave home](https://grownandflown.substack.com/p/5-skills-teens-really-need-before) _2026-07-14 · Grown and Flown_ How did I become ‘The Enemy’? ## [This summer can make or break your teen's college application](https://grownandflown.substack.com/p/this-summer-can-make-or-break-your-192) _2026-07-07 · Grown and Flown_ The day my son stopped asking me to fix things ## [‘College is the best four years of your life’ & other lies](https://grownandflown.substack.com/p/college-is-the-best-four-years-of) _2026-06-30 · Grown and Flown_ What 50 hours in the passenger seat taught me about letting go ## [THIS stage, the teen years, is certainly the best stage](https://grownandflown.substack.com/p/this-stage-the-teen-years-is-certainly-6e0) _2026-06-24 · Grown and Flown_ What I no longer tell my kids about their future ## [How to help your teen say no to risky behavior](https://grownandflown.substack.com/p/how-to-help-your-teen-say-no-to-risky-1f9) _2026-06-16 · Grown and Flown_ To the mom with a teen who just doesn’t seem to care ## [Meet Claude, an AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2EVWFBOyQfsg) _2026-06-16 · **Sponsored**_ Chat with Claude at claude.ai — a conversational AI assistant. ## [ways of being](https://fuzul.bearblog.dev/ways-of-being/) _2026-03-04 · fuzul · doruk balcı_ I read a book recently, it talked about how scores in games give us motivation to experience new ways of being, while in real life metrics can suck the humanity out of things. It was a good book, I’m not as optimistic about games however. The book talks about much more, but I want to talk about something else. What is a way of being? I am being all the time. I am being as I write this. My hands… ## [I like solving problems, not puzzles](https://fuzul.bearblog.dev/i-like-solving-problems-not-puzzles/) _2026-02-25 · fuzul · doruk balcı_ Puzzles annoy me, that is not really a problem, many things i love to do are built on tension, being annoyed comes with the territory. The suspense of not knowing, sitting with the pain of not understanding, until i do. Solving something is a beautiful feeling. There is something about puzzles that I find it very difficult to find the patience for and I can boil it down to two things. First, I… ## [reclaiming my writing](https://fuzul.bearblog.dev/reclaiming-my-writing/) _2026-02-16 · fuzul · doruk balcı_ I gotta be honest with you: working in academia, especially in a STEM field such as computer science is changing how I write and I need to do something about it. When so much of your writing is evaluated and critiqued based on how rigorous and clear it is you find yourself building scaffolding around everything you write. You pretext everything you want to say by trying to guess different ways it… ## [make and break club: thoughts after pilot session](https://fuzul.bearblog.dev/make-and-break/intro/) _2025-08-12 · fuzul · doruk balcı_ We had the first session of make and break club yesterday where we played around and made zines with electric zine maker (ezm). It was unhinged and beautiful and I had a lot of fun. EZM works so well for a workshop where you can play around immediately. The tool is designed playfully, everything is responsive in a manner that is full of surprises, and you don’t really have to worry about messing… ## [monthly post: july](https://fuzul.bearblog.dev/july/) _2025-07-28 · fuzul · doruk balcı_ some months feel like both a year and a week at the same time. this month i’ve done a lot, but also not much at the same time. i’ve traveled, walked around nice places, met a lot of people, saw some friends i haven’t seen in a while, and saw friends i see quite regularly. went to develop brighton, met some people, read by the beach. gave people zines, wrote poetry from eavesdropping in the… ## [monthly post: june](https://fuzul.bearblog.dev/monthly-post-june/) _2025-06-30 · fuzul · doruk balcı_ Spent most of this month trying to figure out how to create routines in which I can rest and work freely. I’m lucky to be able to work on things I am passionate about, but it also means there can be times I can’t separate my work from my life, it bleeds into every moment. Especially in ambiguity, where I can’t feel a sense of trajectory, it can be overwhelming to the point that the physical… ## [2024, a year of all time](https://fuzul.bearblog.dev/2024-a-year-of-all-time/) _2024-12-28 · fuzul · doruk balcı_ Get in loser, it’s time to reflect on our years. This has been such a strange, beautiful, scary, exhausting year full of love and longing for me in so many ways. I moved to UK a year and a half ago, after moving 3 times in 3 years, a nomadic life where I needed to adapt constantly, jump through hoops and barriers, work a lot to form and maintain my bonds, struggling to grow any roots where I was.…