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The heart of metaphor is inference. Conceptual metaphor allows inferences in sensory-motor domains (e.g., domains of space and objects) to be used to draw inferences about other domains (e.g., domains of subjective judgment, with concepts like intimacy, emotions, justice, and so on). Because we reason in terms of metaphor, the metaphors we use

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“Medicare for all” is a version of a single-payer healthcare system. Instead of having a private insurer pay for your healthcare, the government would be the only (single) entity paying for healthcare (hence the name single-payer). This doesn’t necessarily mean that there wouldn’t be private insurance — people can choose to get private insurance... See more

Emotionally we have many problems, but these problems are not actual problems; they are something created; they are problems pointed out by our self-centered ideas or views.

Writing a document is easy. But sharing a document to get thoughts from my team has been hard. I’ve sent out the link over Slack, asked for feedback by a certain date, tried to monitor who’s opened it, pinged people to read it again, and maybe ended up with a handful of inline comments that don’t give me meaningful feedback.

I said earlier that the biggest risk to Substack is archives, but that’s only true in the existential sense. With regards to future growth, the biggest risk is that the mainstream population continues to read mainstream journals, and Substack never crosses the chasm.