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What about not-smart cars? Anyone have recommendations there? I don't want "infotainment" and touch screens man...

I used to purchase notebooks for journaling but had a similar hangup to some other posts on this thread. I just though that it was a hard sell to continually have to shell out a bu…

I think that it is best to approach the practice of philosophy and the output of that practice as really meaningful, but not that important. I believe that there is an inverse rela…

This is actually what I came here to say! It is great book that I have given to many people. I also recommend Anathem, by Neal Stephenson which is a romp of a novel shot through wi…

I feel your pain. We have a 5 year old and twin 3 year olds. Our 5 year old will be entering K this fall too. Though, who knows what exactly that will look like. Right now the scho…

Darn Tough socks are good, too.

Thought that the discussion of the mechanism by which the virus generates the shortness of breath symptom was particularly interesting. As well as the R0 discussion and COVID19s pl…

Do you have the name of that guy?

I think if you keep in mind that it reports a specific thing, then it is useful.

I think that some of the science adjacent podcasts which provide in depth show note and literature analysis for people willing to pay 10/15 bucks a month are a step in that directi…

Does anyone have a personal toolkit of sorts for this type of decision making? Or a pointer to one. I don't mean books, but more of like book-distillates ore something. Heuristics …

Or even the general incarceration rate amongst adults.

It is also true in my case. My extended family still gets KFC every Christmas Eve.