Mo King

The mistake theory framework assumes you can evaluate statements by checking them against reality - both in describing what exists now and predicting what happens next. Someone makes a claim, you gather evidence, you assess correspondence, you test predictions. The statement is either more true or more false, and this can be determined through... See more

To generalize about this, a lot of men feel like they have to be the 'center of the world,' or to be the 'best ever,' to want to do anything, and if they weren't wanted in publishing — and literature, in general, became very female-coded — then they drifted off to something else.

When a mistake theorist encounters a statement, they ask: “Does this correspond to reality?”

This is the map-territory distinction. Good maps reflect the territory accurately. Bad maps don’t. The goal of discourse is building better maps - more accurate models of the world. Truth is correspondence between map and territory.

Once it became clear just how dead the millennial socialist project really was, he gradually faded into the damp Rebecca Solnitty vocabulary of a defeated left, Believing in Hope and Hoping for Belief. (There but for the grace of God.) But back in 2010, writing stupid tweets about killing all white people was part of that package. This is not ideal... See more

Everyone remembers being bullied at school. Even celebs, film stars, supermodels, beautiful and charismatic people, all seem to have had a hard time of it when they were kids. Some people build the entire foundation of their adult life on having been bullied as a child. You were such a misfit, you were so interesting and different... But nobody... See more

Judaism gave the world the idea that righteousness might not belong to the strong: our God is on the side of the weak, the poor, the persecuted, and the despised. First He thunders: ‘The Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible.’ But in the very next verse: ‘He executes the judgment of the fatherless... See more

All of which is to say that cultivating a healthy, creative digital life can easily become an absorbing pursuit unto itself. It’s a little like setting out to clean your house, and then growing interested in interior design. You might start re-cluttering your house with new, tasteful objects.