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It's the irl version of being accused of hacking in Counterstrike.

It’s probably selected for. We’re pokers by natural selection.

If you enjoyed TRM, his other book The Happiness Hypothesis surprisingly covers this and other concepts in much better detail relative to the OP.

Old enough!? I'm old enough to remember that and I'm only... nearly 40, damn.

Haha. Thats very well put! My favourite episode (The Bear with a Comet on his Belly): https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/414/

The Sleep With Me Podcast is very good. It helped my wife when she had a period of insomnia. He has a number of tricks he uses from a monoto delivery, to meandering stories where t…

What are we doing where looking after children is seen as a con for “the labor supply of senior workers”, and “the labor supply of young mothers”. Won’t someone think of the labour…

What is this very mild cyberpunk motif doing in my cyberpunk library website?

Grandparents, young cousins, older siblings, family friends, aunts and uncles, and extended family beyond. Simply being around frequently, and also easily available when needed. Ve…

Yes, my wife and I live away from family. On the weekends, when there is no nanny, we are at work 100% of the time with him. One's only downtime is when he naps, or when your partn…

Indeed. And because of it’s age and outlook its view is very far back and very far forward. The casual reference to a 135 year old encyclical that dealt with the seismic shift of i…

For some reason writerdecks almost all insist on having tiny little screens.

Archive.org mostly ignores robots.txt https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...

Any business greater than Dunbar's Number should not be considered small.

Funnily enough I work in the security industry and the term is ubiquitous there, so I didn’t even notice it.

I am above average (by a small margin) on Lichess, and it sounds trite but to be average at chess you have to not make blunders. Things like not leaving a piece hanging undefended,…

Business school writing frequently smells like Post hoc rationalisation to me (with some confirmation bias mixed in).