Loud & Wrong
Bourdain Statements: saying a false thing loudly to provoke other people to correct you.
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Should Have Kissed Her
Maybe you should have, but people's expressed regrets have nothing to do with it.
Everyday Meditation Objects
You can meditate on coffee cup lids, it's legal and no-one can stop you
On the Beating of Children and Other Apparently Fine Things
Being a kid is just like having a regular 9-to-5 job, but you also may get your ass kicked.
Pushing Bundles Of Thoughts Out Your Mouth
On some level, the entire problem of communication is the difficulty of pushing complex bundles of inter-related thoughts through your mouth.
In Praise of Jock Values
In high school there are jocks and nerds, and if you're reading this I'm going to assume you were the latter.
University as a Service
American Universities sell an ongoing service that alumni receive for the rest of their lives, co-creating the good with other people who've paid a costly signal of their commitment to it.
The Longer It Takes, The Longer-Longer It Takes
So many things takes longer than they should, but longer-taking things take longer-longer
One of the Biggest Stories of the Century Happened, We Just Don’t Know Which
There's only 3 possibilities, and all of them are bananas.
Believe Everything
Something I heard recently is that your brain processes new information by first temporarily believing it and then, if necessary, disconfirming it. So if you're told something false, you'll very briefly believe it – try it on for size, I guess -- before tagging it as inconsistent with your existing knowledge,
