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I don’t like living alone.
This insight brought to you by my brother, who is visiting me and currently laying on my living room floor laughing at something at his phone. I feel warm and calm and deeply okay.
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language and
Example I: "Duncan Sabien is a teacher and a writer."
This is a true sentence. People who know me very, very well, upon hearing this sentence, will nod. It's a good fit, retrospectively, for the data.
However, if you are attempting to give someone a sense of me up-front, saying "Duncan Sabien is a teacher and a writer" is an unusually bad start.
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Life and Life Advice
You can’t optimize your way toward feeling alive. Efficiency is a tool to enable life; it is not a life.
Geoff Lewistwitter.comSociety has spent a lot of time conditioning us to think of the tryers as better than the slackers. Being a tryer is a virtue. Slackers are missing the point of education; why are they even there? The tryers are going to go places, the slackers will never amount to anything.
But in fact, both groups are doing it wrong.
If you want to be highly... See more
But in fact, both groups are doing it wrong.
If you want to be highly... See more
LessWrong • Half-assing it with everything you've got - LessWrong
