Small Thoughts

1. I realized I'm way more worried about catching respiratory infections at theaters and lectures than at restaurants. I think this is because at a lecture or show everyone is sharing a single attentional space, and my brain is (irrationally) extending that to a stronger-than-usual sharedness of "air space", versus at the restaurant where each group is an island.
   
2. What would it look like to do industrial policy for your brain? I guess you would focus your thinking-time on whichever thinking-topics you have comparative advantage in. But is there an infant industry argument for your own thoughts? Can you do Korean-style export subsidies on your own heart?
   
3. We're just so lucky to be alive, it's wild!
   
   (I didn't say they were all original small thoughts).
   
4. A cool social network idea would be a site like Twitter (etc) but you can only follow 150 people and you can ONLY see tweets from those people. Curation/retweeting becomes much more important, because your followers can't/won't see a bunch of cool stuff unless you choose to share it. But by sharing it you're also taking some meaningful amount of responsibility for it.