Happy National Coming Out Day!
It’s not exactly a secret, so I don’t think it counts as “coming out,” but for the record my spouse and I are both polyamorous and have an open marriage.
…and no time, energy, or money for dating, so it’s completely irrelevant. But still true!
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If anybody needs me, I’ll be in the attic wearing a John Keats costume.
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Me: Hmm…what if [obscure hypothetical that will 1000% never actually happen]
Also me: *proceeds to waste the next 80 minutes working out how I would respond to all the most upsetting and stressful details of said hypothetical*
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If your company ever releases a version of their mobile app where selecting something moves the selectable elements, the developer responsible should be shot.
I mean, like, with a squirt gun or something. Obviously.
But not gently.
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I was in my bedroom a few weeks ago when I suddenly remembered I’d gotten a text earlier in the evening. It was from an old friend I hadn’t heard from in a very long time, but I’d decided not to check it right away, because we hadn’t parted on great terms and I was nervous about what it might say. This struck me as highly unlikely–on both counts–so I concluded that I was probably just remembering a dream.
What makes this unusual is that I came to this conclusion while still dreaming. I must be doing something right!
The benefits of rationality can be difficult to see. Just like with doctors and governments, its benefit is more in preventing negative outcomes than securing positive ones. The cost of prevention is easy to see, and it’s equally easy to see when it fails–but it’s difficult to impossible to notice all the times something bad doesn’t happen. (This is why everybody hates bureaucracy, but getting rid of it always ends in disaster.)
Unfortunately, this also means it can be difficult to tell if you’re doing rationality right–especially if you don’t have any aspiring rationalist friends to make bets with. It’s nice to see some positive results!
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In my Google Drive, I have a folder with one document for each year since about 2015. Each one of them contains quotes I read that year that I thought were particularly informative, inspiring, insightful, funny, etc.
Lately I’ve been re-reading some of my older essays (not my old old essays–I’m talking, like, last month’s), and I’ve found myself wanting to quote myself.
Needless to say, my internal critic had a few words about this.
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What is this? What even is this animal??
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Me: Wow, people seem to like my last post a lot. I’ve gotten some really positive feedback!
My brain: Well, you worked really hard on it. You should be proud! All that practice is paying–
My other brain: QuiT nOW, yOUv’E pEakeD
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In Search of Secrets 