A large part of this blog is about assuming responsibility for the path you take in your own life. There are two aspects to this— the first one is discovering that you can custom-design yourself by making uncommon choices and disregarding what you’re “supposed” to do; the second is accepting and enjoying the fact that unusual decisions may result in unusual situations and unusual outcomes.

In this blog I may or may not talk about a lot of things I may or may not have done. Some of these things may or may not have had a good/bad/interesting/predictable outcome. If you read this blog, you might get some ideas about activities or techniques you might like to try in order to shake up your own life. If that is the case, all I can say to you is this: the liability lies solely with you for the consequences of anything you choose to do after reading this blog. I am not responsible for anything bad that happens to you if you tried something because you read that it turned out well for me. The whole point is that you are not me and I am not you, which is a good thing. I encourage you to embrace your unconventional decisions as well as your conventional ones, but more importantly to take full responsibility for (and indeed be proud of) every move you make in your life, no matter how it turns out.

I would normally assume that this sort of thing is obvious to the kind of person who would be interested in reading this blog, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned from living an unconventional life, it’s not to assume anything.

So with that in mind, I bring you Herche’s Blog Disclaimer.

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“We, the bloggers of the World Wide Web, in order to facilitate the transfer of information online, ensure our voices are heard, provide accurate news and opinionated perspective in the face of an increasingly defunct and exempt media, and to poke fun at our culture’s inane obsession with liability, do abide by, adhere to and generally follow Herche’s Blog Disclaimer.”

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