Just Be Kind: Mercy, Madness, and Death
God is love.
Love conquers all.
Just be kind.
This sentiment is, at least in many parts of the Western world, considered the core of all virtue: orient your heart towards compassion and altruism, and everything will naturally work…
It seems to me that external feedback is critical to reality-check your self-reflection. I often side-eye people who focus on self-awareness, as to some it can mean navel-gazing until a predetermined conclusion has been justified.
Anyway, social reality testing your…
It seems to me that external feedback is critical to reality-check your self-reflection. I often side-eye people who focus on self-awareness, as to some it can mean navel-gazing until a predetermined conclusion has been justified.
Anyway, social reality testing your…
I think it's in the first volume of Democracy in America Tocqueville says that democracies are stable, but every election cycle work themselves up into a periodic state of frenzied ecstasy channelled by political institutions, unlike in any other regime.
If you haven’t had someone on “your side” criticize something you’ve said, consider you’re in an echo chamber.
If you’ve had this experience and are now too scared to say anything else, consider that you’re also in a cult.
A new survey of Harvard’s faculty & staff shows they’re even more reluctant to discuss controversial issues with colleagues than they are with students.
Dissident faculty & staff members know their colleagues are more close-minded than students whose minds they work to close.
A hack that helped me unblock procrastinated tiny tasks:
I refactored my todo lists to reflect the real work at hand
instead of:
“Reply to rental car guy” (a 5min writing task)
it now says:
“process resistance around emailing the rental car guy” (a 30min introspective task)
If I were a PhD advisor I’d just help my students find gaps in the literature by forging the One Gap in the Literature to Rule Them All in the fires of Mount Doom.
Dispassionate or otherwise objective observers should not replace pissed off community members. Similarly, pissed off community members should not replace objective observers (or people who aren't personally affected by the issue).
One squeezing out the other is the problem.
So I guess it's Lenore rant time again:
I totally agree with you!
Here's what sometimes makes me despair: I just heard from a mom trying to get two other families to let their kids play with her kids at her home for an hour a week, outside.
AN HOUR A WEEK. She lives on a quiet…
So I guess it's Lenore rant time again:
I totally agree with you!
Here's what sometimes makes me despair: I just heard from a mom trying to get two other families to let their kids play with her kids at her home for an hour a week, outside.
AN HOUR A WEEK. She lives on a quiet…
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