dealing with losers
(2020nov5 thread) I’m not a fan of divvying people up arbitrarily into winners and losers – one should never be gleeful about this – but I do have a subconscious subroutine that does it for me, and it’s very useful mental machinery, even accounting for some small % of error rate (5-10%?) I am being […]
fumbling the bag
There’s an exchange on Tinder(?) that I once saw on Twitter that I think about a lot. Read this really slowly and closely because there is a lot to learn here. First of all, he opens with “there is no way you swiped right on purpose” – this is already a bad move in my […]
“Wrong.”
This is more of my personal approach to things rather than some kind of claim about how the world works, or even how it should work. It’s how I like to do things. I’m always kind of surprised when I see someone telling someone else that they’re wrong on the Internet. Not because that it’s […]
kids in shitty social graphs
The following is a riff from a twitter thread I once wrote that I reference fairly often. I’m choosing to reproduce some of it here because I realize it’s a core part of my motivations. People who are really knowledgeable about the world are often publicly silent about the juiciest stuff, probably because the upside […]