(inspired by Dipika Kohli and her conversation salons!) I like spaces where interesting conversations happen. Unfortunately, sometimes interesting conversations are not to be had within a sensible distance of the house. Or they are, but the people I want to converse with don’t live within sensible distance of my house, they live a plane ride […]
Why can’t I get Codex to delete my repo?
Making microzines.
Once again I have been reading Robin Hanson on cultural adaptation and cultural drift. I am sympathetic to futarchy, and he invented it. I am less sympathetic to many of his proposed solutions to fix cultural drift. In a blog post from earlier this month, Hanson puts forward the idea of the “ancestor test” – […]
The best productivity app is the one you actually use Since I was a teenager, the number of productivity apps has just ballooned. You don’t need pen and paper anymore – you have zenware and Notion and Obsidian and etc etc etc. The world is drowning in productivity apps. Call me old-fashioned, but I am […]
The average human lifespan is about 4000 weeks. When you put it that way, it’s a terrifyingly short amount of time.
If you can’t be bothered to ask me questions, why should I answer them?
It’s not enough to have goals for living people. It’s time to think about what those goals are.
This afternoon, my husband and I were talking about how things just seemed better back in 2008 to 2014, or at least less bad. Things made more sense. It seemed like we had positive visions for the future, or something. …and then I realised that we sounded like the 90s kids that I used to […]
Happy rather belated New Year! I have now finished my PhD, I am a Dr, and I am slowly emerging back into the real world. Which – right now – is rather a messy place. I’ve increasingly been wondering about heuristics for deciding which sources are and aren’t reliable. This is because I think truth […]
Osnat Katz Moon 