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'Elves' 26 Jun 2013 | 11:29 am
When someone tells me it's important to have "boundaries" in interpersonal relationships, I know what they mean. I know that they're right, in a sandboxed way. As with the interpersonal, so with the g...
That's my story and I'm concave to it 10 Jun 2013 | 11:55 am
From one of NNT's weird little tables, this one on page 214 of Antifragile: Narrative knowledge Antifragile: Optionality-driven tinkering, trial and error Narrative is epistemological Narrative is...
And one fine morning 3 Mar 2013 | 12:23 am
"He has the brilliance and stupidity of the patriarchal male, he can play the dominance games cleverly, but wouldn't be able to string together a sentence about why or whether they're worth playing." ...
The Simple Truth 17 Feb 2013 | 10:11 am
"[I]t was the brutal way they took your lives and made them trite, over hundreds and hundreds of pages. How comfortably these people fit your lives into their own way of seeing the world. Even if the ...
Fake it till you get it, get it till you make it 10 Feb 2013 | 11:40 pm
There are three basic approaches we can take to the things that assault our authenticity: 1) Surrender 2) Contention 3) Cooptation (turn it into a game) I preached this as a teenager, I had Steve #2...
Network this 7 Feb 2013 | 10:45 am
"If children today are at greater risk for obesity than those of previous generations, it's not simply because they're less physically active as a result of being absorbed in TV or computers. It's pri...
In the name of the best within you 28 Jan 2013 | 12:54 am
Taleb again: "Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation." This post-heroic absence of...
And know the place for the first time 23 Jan 2013 | 08:55 am
"The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality — without exploiting them for fun and profit." — Taleb, The Bed of P...
must have been the same thing (charlie brown went through) 17 Jan 2013 | 10:47 am
Q: Hey, be who you are, or who you're becoming. Q: Maybe best advice I was ever given: "Be true to yourself and change" C: I think I'm becoming a lesbian. C: or just prepping for seattle :P C: it's th...
Happy Xmas (War Is Over?) 23 Dec 2012 | 10:16 am
Unlike a virgin, kicking and screaming; this still works well. January: "I was sent this link and can't bear to read more than a couple of grafs." February: "'All this effort, all these risks taken ...
