Believe Experiences, Not Explanations Experiences and explanations are separate things, and we have better reasons to think people understand their own experiences than that they reached the right explanations for those expereiences.
Loud & Wrong Bourdain Statements: saying a false thing loudly to provoke other people to correct you.
Should Have Kissed Her Maybe you should have, but people's expressed regrets have nothing to do with it.
On the Beating of Children and Other Apparently Fine Things Being a kid is just like having a regular 9-to-5 job, but you also may get your ass kicked.
Pushing Bundles Of Thoughts Out Your Mouth On some level, the entire problem of communication is the difficulty of pushing complex bundles of inter-related thoughts through your mouth.
In Praise of Jock Values In high school there are jocks and nerds, and if you're reading this I'm going to assume you were the latter.
University as a Service 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.
The Longer It Takes, The Longer-Longer It Takes So many things takes longer than they should, but longer-taking things take longer-longer