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

One of the Biggest Stories of the Century Happened, We Just Don’t Know Which

There's only 3 possibilities, and all of them are bananas.

Believe Everything

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

Book Review: Yąnomamö: The Fierce People

Napoleon Chagnon's book was so poorly received that he was accused of committing genocide via measles. Needless to say, I was intrigued.

Uninterrupted Work

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

We Picked Right with Einstein

Our intellectual role model should be the most moral person we can find that’s at least passable as a “smart person”. What we got is a moral sage that’s passable as the most influential mind of all time.