Hosted by William T. Torgerson · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 14 episodes
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Weekly essays from beyond the rift. Enjoy 5-10 minute episodes every Wednesday at 11:11am as read by the author, William T. Torgerson 30degreeshift.substack.com
William T. Torgerson hosts 30 Degree Shift, a society show with 14 episodes published.
Episode Summary A baby squirrel. A pack of curious dogs. A towering water oak that had become too dangerous to keep standing. This episode is about grief, responsibility, mercy, and the strange ways certain moments stay
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In This Episode Why meaningful experiences resist language How sharing changes memory itself The limits of communication The Parthenon and the illusion of perfection Journaling as a personal monument Shared versus solita
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Episode Summary I went to a wedding expecting discomfort and left carrying less than I arrived with. This episode starts with a DND group during COVID, moves through a divorce I didn’t fully understand how to process, an
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In This Episode The strange physical feeling of true darkness Small thoughts that surface when there’s nothing left to drown them out Read the Full Essay https://www.williamtorgerson.com/30-degree-shift/its-loud-but-not-
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What This Episode Explores - Why we avoid asking for help even when it’s clearly needed - The gap between solving a problem and admitting we can’t do it alone - How pride disguises itself as independence - The role of di
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What This Episode Explores Why harder tasks can feel more satisfying than easy ones The difference between efficiency and engagement How routine compresses memory and makes time feel shorter Why we choose “faster” option
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Episode Notes When Did Compromise Become Dangerous? “Compromise” didn’t always mean losing something. At some point, it stopped feeling like resolution, and began feeling like risk. This episode traces how a word tied to
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Passion Isn’t About Success Passion isn’t about whether you succeed. It’s about whether you love the work—even when it doesn’t lead anywhere. This episode explores the difference between passion and ambition, why they of
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I almost lost my thumb the other day. The worst part wasn’t the injury, it was knowing I'd ignored the red flag from my brain This episode looks at what actually happens in the moment of decision. Not just “bad v. good d
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Burn Your Art (Sometimes) I finished a 60,000-word novel.Then I burned it. I wouldn't have been able to do that until now. This episode is about the strange relationship between creation and attachment, and how a concept
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I don’t remember much before 15 years old. So far as I know, there’s no major life event that I can blame for that, but I have some theories. The prevailing one is what I call the “passenger problem.” Whoever was driving
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Cheating Death by Die The lime-green digital die tumbled across the board with a simulated skip, landing on four, the same number of health points I had remaining. In the final battle of our GURPS arc, our Game Master ha
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If it isn’t obvious by now, I’m neurodivergent. I grew up in a home that didn’t respect that aspect of the mind until I was an adult, and even today we don’t talk about it much. It’s easy to just let everyone deal with t
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In my last post, I talked about the ‘gravity’ of a character’s baggage and how it bends the light of a scene. This short story was an experiment in that exact math, using the five senses not just to describe a room, but
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Perspective has fascinated me since I struggled through reading a book on special relativity that I grabbed off my dad’s bookshelf. It took me an embarrassingly long time to finish. For years I would say “it’s all relati
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Perspective has fascinated me since I struggled through reading a book on special relativity that I grabbed off my dad’s bookshelf. It took me an embarrassingly long time to finish. For years I would say “it’s all relati
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