Not so obvious

Almost every time I meet somebody who I'd consider to be a genius, I discover that they have some debilitating inhibition like severe insomnia, addiction, mania, or paranoia. Nature trades in fine balances. Rare is the one who gets the gift but not the curse.

The "nah" might be your authentic self protecting you from performative nonsense. Someone who genuinely loves morning runs doesn't need tricks to get out of bed. They bound out because running is actually rewarding for them.

Eagleman recounts a study done at Harvard where subjects were blindfolded, then had scans done of their brain. Within an hour, other senses were encroaching on the visual part of the brain. So, sight is uniquely vulnerable when we sleep because it turns off for hours.

every time i see a login screen, i feel like absolute shit.

not because i forgot my password, though let’s be real, i probably did but because in 2025, i’m still being asked to prove i exist to a website i’ve visited 94 times. like a dog begging to be let back into its own house.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.