“@anildash @KristyT I don't even think this is really about whether an org is good or bad. I see this as human nature. People who proclaim themselves vividly as X get *really* defensive when called out on not behaving true to X”
“I let my work seep into every hour that I had previously kept sacred as mine. When I walked home from the office, or did chores around my apartment, I listened to the political news that I had missed while working. When I slept, I was visited by my projects and colleagues in my sleep. When I ran in the park in the morning, instead of seeing the trees, I envisioned tasks I planned to complete later in the day.” “This house has weathered the upbringing of two children and one divorce.” “Eleni and I are still close friends, but we no longer do each others hair.”
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There's also a useful version of such critical remarks which can be made. One wants two things: (a) remarks which help people understand their own potential better; and (b) remarks which help people better understand what's involved in working in a particular field.— Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen) November 24, 2018
i can't stress enough how much it's helped/healed me to be in a relationship where my partner asks for and accepts help from me. it's cool to be properly self-sufficient, of course, but it can also be really damaging to not ask for help or accept the occasional favor— bb ghost (@emilywithcurls) November 22, 2018
“THIS RECORD IS GENERALLY INSPIRED BY THE FEELING OF HAVING LOST AND FOUND YOUR CAR KEYS AT THE SAME TIME. THERE'S DRAMA, DISTRESS AND DEEP, PROFOUND CONTEMPLATION MIRRORED WITH RELIEF AND RELENTLESS JOY.”
“For more open-ended problems, much of the challenge lies in figuring out what to do next. These rich questions offer deep satisfaction on longer time scales, but without a clear sense of progress, each day ends ambiguously. Was today good? Will these tinkerings add up to anything? In what timeframe? Who knows. Ultimately: what structures around progress, self-correction, and operations can help us in open-ended mode? These questions are intensely personal, but I hope that notes from my journey here may help your own.”
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about materials. Obviously, a painter’s material is paint, a sculptor’s material is bronze or clay. But what of the other, more abstract arts? For example, a stand-up comedian will refer to her material. What, exactly, is that material? Jokes? Stories? What is a writer’s material? Here’s Annie Dillard: A well-known
“I love my commute! It means I have someplace to be, that I’m part of something. I love looking at people on the train, watching the way they talk to and hold their children, their boyfriends, their moms. Eavesdropping on the questions they ask one another, the way they laugh. Their tattoos, their nails, the things they’re reading on their phones.”
“@jckarter @dimsumthinking And then you have to ask what kind of linked list? Singly-linked persistent, doubly-linked mutable? The educational argument is strong, but I suspect the most educational part of a linked list is writing your own.”
“been thinking about this and I feel like "closeted" isn't quite the right word for a certain category of nonbinary experiences. I'm starting to prefer "basemented", as in "there's a gender-neutral restroom in the basement" https://t.co/r7tAvpDenz”
As of September 2018, there were 892 million comments for the year so far, spread out over 355,939 subreddits. Here’s how it got to this point, and “what the internet has been talking a…
“@mhdempsey In general the two forms I am most interested in are 1) coalescing of people from randomly talking --> implicit --> explicit groups 2) reverse engineering physical events by seeing ripples they cause in network closure”
The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations - Marginal REVOLUTION
“At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them, and to the broader world, may be enormous”
