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It is important to remember that lies are easily detected.

I am very old and I think the number one sign of maturity is realizing that there is no value in determining who is "at fault" for something bad. You should definitely have strong boundaries and never allow bad behavior in your projects or social circles, but ultimately what you support is what will make the most impact

The YouTube algorithm doesn't get enough praise as a music discovery algorithm. I've been blown away at the insight of the recommendations it's been able to generate.

Isocrates and Kant both held their major works until their old age, using their early and middle years to achieving mastery through teaching.

What iſ life if not a gamble?
What if life iſ not a gamble?

The ten attic orators are really great and you should read them. Real master classes in style.

Make it illegal to spell Superbowl as two words. It is one word.

To be clear, I think that writers should have something like a "no zero days" standard, if it can be humanely implemented, but I believe such a thing is basically irrelevant to the breakthrough capacity of some writers to massively overproduce.

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I am coming around to the view that 10x variance is possible in writers, but it has less to do with the ability to avoid left-tail variance ("no zero days") and more to do to the ability to capture windfalls from right-tail variance.

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Remember that a major writing project is a moonshot. And even at its flashiest moments, the people within the moonshot spent some time on a rocket ship at 24,000 mph and some time driving a rover at 8mph.

An evocation is an ancient Roman ritual to steal the favor of your enemy's god by giving that god a better temple and better cult in Rome. It's dominating someone else by "owning" their idols.

I think this is good and should be brought back to the culture war.

Roman law: CONTRACT IS THE BASIS OF THE LAW

Romans: ok

Roman law: IF YOU HAVE A CONTRACT YOU HAVE TO SWEAR TO IT IN PERSON. THERE'S A BUNCH OF RULES ABOUT HOW YOU SWEAR TO IT.

Romans: (break contracts effortlessly by not following all the rules of swearing to it)
... Problem, officialis?

After playing the same jazz song for five years every day, the algorithm has determined that I am using it to calm a dog, so I am now getting recommendations for "calming jazz for dogs."

Honest to God, I can tell you specific colonies in colonial New England that had better "level 1" literacy than the contemporary USA. Those are the same colonies that established public schools because they believed Satan was tricking them into Catholicism.

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