Confession. For the psychology GRE I remembered the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis using the following mnemonic: "Worf speaks an aggressive-sounding language and has a heightened perception of conflict"

Maxis could have owned "metaverse" years ago if they hadn't gotten lazy

Nobody ever gave Anton Chigurh enough crap for stealing Harvey Dent's coin flip murder bit. Yeah I watched the Batman cartoon show too Anton

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"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" It's probabilistic dude, you'd think a guy who goes around flipping coins all day would know not to generalize from N=1

Femtotechnology startup ready to leave stealth but suddenly all the good "femtech" domain names are gone

Russian/Ukrainian software engineers are often grumpier and cockier than anyone else could get away with. They're just great at it

"If your car never runs out of gas, you're spending too much time in gas stations"

This was an irresistible joke but StrangeHobbies is such an innocent pervert that I felt bad doing it. One of his recent posts is a video of him thoroughly coating his head in marshmallow fluff. Must have taken hours to clean out but I guess worth it for him?

When individual differences in your hypothesized causes and effects don't correlate but you charge ahead anyway

Starting to think that I'm reaching a point in the standard trajectory of mental speed decline (late 30s) where I can't track what engineers are doing anymore and my tech career will be busted. Need to move into management before anyone notices

NY botanical garden, Bronx, with wifers and the Boy. Aug 15, 2021

Finally convinced myself I can buy a VR headset "for my career" so I won't get haunted by effective altruism ghosts. Thank you CEO Dad

Being relatively affluent shields one from ~75% of the bad life stuff, which is pretty good, but also means that ~25% of people who seem like they have nothing to complain about actually do have something to complain about. (Numbers via butt)

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