Uri

You can meditate on coffee cup lids, it's legal and no-one can stop you

American Universities sell an ongoing service that alumni receive for the rest of their lives, co-creating the good with other people who've paid a costly signal of their commitment to it.

So many things takes longer than they should, but longer-taking things take longer-longer

Something I heard recently is that your brain processes new information by first temporarily believing it and then, if necessary, disconfirming it. So if you're told something false, you'll very briefly believe it – try it on for size, I guess -- before tagging it as inconsistent

Why exactly do various tasks suffer so much if you're interrupted?

In coding there's an idea called "technical debt." The same exists for psychology -- spend now, pay later....