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Indeed. I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/by the false azure in the windowpane...

102. Eschew advice books.

I sent an unsolicited 25 page paper about memes that I wrote, as just some (fairly pretentious!) guy without a college degree, to Professor Dennett, in the early oughts. And he jus…

A couple of thoughts: I’m unable to go back with my browser’s ’Back’ key. not being able to revisit an activity reduces the site’s usefulness. Also, I’d recommend adding a feature …

Seems to be more or less impossible to play on my iPhone.

There’s an additional factor to this that the “leaving your AirPods in when talking to someone is rude” crowd don’t realize: AirPods are actually very effective hearing aids. ( htt…

I think this is a misunderstanding. The EU bans if there is a possible hazard; the US bans based on calculated risk. While it’s possible (but unlikely) there could be cases in whic…

Am I the only person who hates it when people say “anyways” when they mean “anyway”?

Creative people suffer from a lack of neural plasticity? Interesting…

For people familiar with Scheper’s work: What are the “three challenges” he refers to in the hero’s journey?

I haven’t heard anyone express this before, but when it comes to my death and the deaths of others, I take comfort in the idea of the Block Universe. On the Block Universe concept,…

Well, I followed this method and the onions took 3 hours to get to deep brown. This leads me to “Hofstader’s Law of Caramelized Onions:” Onions always take 3 times as long to caram…

This is the exact opposite of my experience. As a chronically depressed person, my inner voice is pretty much my enemy. I listen to podcasts to drown it out. I mostly listen to pod…

+1. Also writing. WRT reading: I think the trick is that being absorbed in something mitigates boredom and existential ennui. And for me, the effect is most pronounced when I read …

Greenland is surprisingly good, and scandalously overlooked: https://www.google.com/search?q=greenland+movie&ie=UTF-8&oe=...

It’s time to put this tired myth to bed. The truth is that HFCS and table sugar are virtually identical, and the health effects of consuming either are the same. https://www.health…

Oh come on. Surely you can think of a few things other than iPhones and malaria medicine we have, that were completely unavailable to kings and queens of old. (Although “smart phon…

Or what if it’s a kite, or a piece of trash blowing in the wind, or a paper airplane, or…

I would like to read the book and I’m sure it’s good. But whenever a character says “does it not?” I want to soak the book in gasoline and light it on fire.

I live in Silicon Valley. I went to one of the few clinics covered by my insurance, and the dentist spoke in heavily accented English I could barely understand, exacerbated by wear…

I went to a dev boot camp (Fullstack Academy) in my 50s, took a job in Silicon Valley, moved my family out here from NYC, leaving a career as an advertising creative that was lucra…

Upon five more minutes’ consideration, I thought of several reasons why this would probably not imply either of the things I suggested it might imply. But my larger question is: Wh…

Not a scientist. But if this is true, would it imply that A) the universe is younger than we thought, or B) there was a much longer time between the Big Bang and the formation of t…