My dad is a smart man. He is not a writer but has said some good things. He said Steve Jobs was so good because he could create novel things and it didn't matter that everyone else copied them because by then he would be on to the next novel thing. On the Edmund...
Skimming this article on tech diversity, something that has always bothered me as an aspie is how opaque people are. How they'll use a whole ton of words to say nothing. I think by and large conservatives are less opaque than liberals. This isn't necessarily a good...
Great comment on a NYTimes article on elderly life hacks: Once you are elderly, I am 72, you realize that you are not so different from younger people. You still have your desires, creativity, enjoyment of life, brains, resilience, sociability, love of beauty, love of...
From an After the Fact New Yorker article: Lynch thinks we are frighteningly close to this point: blind to proof, no longer able to know. After all, we’re already no longer able to agree about how to know. (See: climate change, above.) ... In England, the abolition of...
This is a short story by Shawn Pfister from her compilation My Vampire Prom Date and other stories. This is some good young adult fiction, you should pick it up, especially for someone in junior high or high school. The Death of Eleanor Nobody seems to remember...
Psychology is not dispensed in age appropriate ways. For example as a 35 year old male for someone to tell me not to let my vocational failure define me is laughable. Pass 30 as a male and what's on your W2 does define you and determines whether you make guy friends...
The further one is away from privilege the less effect what's in their head has on how successful they become. This is because attitude is like a product key and privilege is like having the entire piece of 50 Gigabyte software already downloaded (as to lack of...
This is a compilation of my notes from visiting the Dachau concentration camp when I went to Germany last fall. Dachau concentration camp lies just outside of Munich, Germany in the heart of Nazi territory and was the first concentration camp, serving as a model for...
There is often a very easy explanation for the beliefs one uses to navigate this world of ours. How beliefs are used. People figure if someone is using a belief on them it must be good enough for them to use. A few hypothetical examples: Susie is a 23 year old...
I have been unfortunate in life in that the two closest friends I have had became uncommunicative in the end. The first friend from junior high I had a falling out with and the second one from college I became too low status for. These people aren't stupid, they did...