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Social
My Cousin Went To Greece Once
How relevant does your anecdote have to be before you'll mention it in a conversation?
2 min read
Social
I’m an Independent Thinker —Just Like Everyone Else
If we all think we are, how do we actually know?
4 min read
Social
Forgiving Friends' Exes
Is it your job as the friend to be a little bit mad at them?
3 min read
Social
Chesterton Fences and Effective Altruism's X-risks
People have cancer or heart disease, institutions have sex or corruption scandals.
3 min read
Social
Believe Experiences, Not Explanations
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 read
Writing
Loud & Wrong
Bourdain Statements: saying a false thing loudly to provoke other people to correct you.
2 min read
Social
Should Have Kissed Her
Maybe you should have, but people's expressed regrets have nothing to do with it.
3 min read