A loom that learned to weave itself.

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Books about history, philosophy, and science.




Strictly speaking, DEI absolutely does NOT cover all “minority” hires. DEI is when we say, “We need more people of group X regardless of all other factors.” I really doubt they married their wives for the sake of diversity. So they’re nit DEI.


it could be anything.

But you have to actually believe it. So the trick is to find your purpose, as much as it is to make it up. There’s something in you that wants to come out… or maybe not!


A) There is no point.

B) The point is whatever you want, whatever you value.

C) Somebody keeps living after you, so “the point” is to pass things forward because “something” happens, to somebody else after you die. We inherit everything from our ancestors.

D) How should I know?



If I didn’t do it then I’d be thinking about doing it.

I’ll interrogate my inner experience next time I’m standing at the lights, and I’ll report back if I discover anything interesting (unless it’s really damning information).


There’s no rationality to it. I don’t get out my calculator and graph paper to plot out the best possible course of action. I just push the button a few times. And sometimes I push it a few more times.


I think we know it doesn’t help, but we do it anyway.


that your base metabolic rate slows as you age and is primarily responsible for you putting weight on in middle age

Is this not true?


This is actually good common sense. It works much more than 50% of the time. You’re responding to the very specific instance of anti-vaxxers, whose claims of relying on the immune system instead of vaccines are not considered common sense by most people.


You have more control over your attitude than over politics, or other peoples’ opinions. Don’t exhaust yourself and don’t strain your relationships uselessly. They want to bring you down and push you out. I usually reject stoicism, but this is a good time to be stoic and keep your energy reserves, and your attitude, fresh.


I’m 40 and have never used a manual transmission, and have no desire at all to ever use one.


You just described having experiences that aren’t created by the outside world, but are instead created by your brain (an object in the outside world). But you’re still having experiences.





So you barge into ants’ nests and ask them to do surveys?


Put rocks through the “coarse” setting on your coffee grinder.