You suck at risk assessment
If you think getting a ticket for running a stop sign is a worse outcome than injuring someone or waking up in the hospital, you appear to be both lucky and unimaginative.
Asphalt does not absolve selfishness
When you bend the rules of the road, you’re butting into line. Wait your turn, asshole.
“If I live my life right, how I look is the least interesting thing about me.” Linda Carson
On the prospect of lend/borrow bankruptcy
I’m roughly three weeks away from having to declare lend/borrow bankruptcy: If I haven’t figured out whom to reclaim stuff from or return stuff to, custody becomes ownership… or we could celebrate Le Jour d’Anatole late this year.
“Cutting edge” doesn’t mean solo
Isaac Newton wasn’t Canadian. Let me put this in the language of my people: in short track speed skating relays, you don’t just tag the next skater on your team, you push them.
Pointless: the gamification of metacognition
Pointless: the gamification of metacognition with a generous helping of Theory of Mind on the side.
“Dammit, I don’t want good advice, I want easy advice.” Linda Carson
