Atoms vs Bits

Alright, so: this is not my domain, those of you who know better should definitely pipe up below.

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A thing I see a bunch that disproportionately bugs me is something I'd call selective appeals to determinism.

I just finished Lena Dunham's Famesick, and I think I finally understand why people find Lena Dunham so unlikeable.

I started doing a thing where if I see it's 11:11 I stop what I'm doing and just think about things I'm grateful for.[^1] It turns out this is great, and also there are many times in the day that have similar symmetry.

There are a number of children’s books that do this excellently (thank you, William Steig!)

It's very hard to learn a language as an adult, but somehow kids manage to do it.

Look: I write this blog mainly to 1) meet interesting people, 2) get ideas out of my head so they'll stop bothering me, 3) get better at writing and thinking.

There's this piece of advice that gets bandied around a lot about how "nobody is thinking about you half as much as you think they are."

I find it really hard to keep track of the category of chore that you only need to do every 1 or 2 or 3 months: when did I last change the air filters?

The Wason Selection Task is a famous result in psychology.

11 years ago I ran little experiment where I tried to convince a couple of my friends that I was a chatbot.

1) "How do you figure out if someone is vegan?"

I'm really bad at estimating people's ages, so I made a little quiz to see if I could calibrate myself better.

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