Thinking

Whenever I mention women’s cruelty toward each other to women socially, I hear a reflexive blaming of patriarchy, an abstract, immeasurable, and unfalsifiable concept. This is concerning because we do have control over our own behavior toward others, and it seems leftist ideology wants to studiously ignore it. You can choose not to be a bully. We d

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Four facile and unconvincing argument types which usually indicate that the person commenting missed the point:

1. But what about x? (classic deflection)

2. Accusing the person of painting with a broad brush (they’re usually observing patterns)

3. Accusations of cherry picking (a too easy way to avoid making your own argument, because this asks the writer to p

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Break up with your phone to live a deep life

I had to break up with my phone and radically reorient my relationship before establishing any discipline or developing my deep work muscle. Something as simple as reading becomes impossible with the phone nearby. So, for anyone who has resolved to work on their focus muscles, you must break up with the p

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The problem of asserting qualitative observations going against dominant narratives

This right here from an astute gentleman is my primary fear about writing the things I do. I frequently am citation-trolled, as though the things I write about have been studied. They mostly haven’t (either because they can’t or because academics these days would cen

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