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  "description": "Life on one track, ego dancing its merry tune here and there, busy writing stories 🚊",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-13T06:00:32.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.gilespcroft.com",
  "tags": [
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    "The bus driverThis is your bus. You’re in charge and you’re doing all the driving. Aren’t you? 🤔The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft"
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  "textContent": "I spotted this meme online, and just couldn't resist tinkering with it:\n\n0:00\n\n/0:18\n\n1×\n\nSee that train? That's you, that is.\n\nLife's living you. Breathing you. Moving you. Guiding you.\n\nEgo is observing and commentating, making out like it's in control.\n\nThe original (without the captions I added) is a popular video online – people find it funny.\n\nThe big question is: can you see the machinations of your mind as being just as funny?\n\n🤔\n\nGiles\n\n### Related\n\nThe bus driverThis is your bus. You’re in charge and you’re doing all the driving. Aren’t you? 🤔The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft",
  "title": "Illusion of control",
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