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.
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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,
Book Review: Yąnomamö: The Fierce People
Napoleon Chagnon's book was so poorly received that he was accused of committing genocide via measles. Needless to say, I was intrigued.
Uninterrupted Work
Why exactly do various tasks suffer so much if you're interrupted?
We Picked Right with Einstein
Our intellectual role model should be the most moral person we can find that’s at least passable as a “smart person”. What we got is a moral sage that’s passable as the most influential mind of all time.
Psychological Debt
In coding there's an idea called "technical debt." The same exists for psychology -- spend now, pay later....