Experiences and explanations are separate things, and we have better reasons to think people understand their own experiences than that they reached the right explanations for those expereiences.
3 min readBourdain Statements: saying a false thing loudly to provoke other people to correct you.
2 min readMaybe you should have, but people's expressed regrets have nothing to do with it.
3 min readYou can meditate on coffee cup lids, it's legal and no-one can stop you
1 min readBeing a kid is just like having a regular 9-to-5 job, but you also may get your ass kicked.
6 min readOn some level, the entire problem of communication is the difficulty of pushing complex bundles of inter-related thoughts through your mouth.
3 min readIn high school there are jocks and nerds, and if you're reading this I'm going to assume you were the latter.
4 min readAmerican 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.
2 min readSo many things takes longer than they should, but longer-taking things take longer-longer
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