Will, this will be difficult to get on paper. In late December of 2021 a very close family friend went to Switzerland and threw himself off of a building. It was difficult for all of us who knew him. Frankly, there is very little we know about what happened or what caused this. There is…
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Advice I cannot follow – Failures in Polymathy – Part 2
This is a continuation of last weeks post. I recommend you read that first, as this follows from that. But I am the type of idiot that feels like these problems can be solved with enough reflection and thought. To go into this, I need to bring up another anecdote from my past. When I…
Advice I cannot follow – Failures in Polymathy
I think I am an addict. Or at least, that’s a part of my personality that shouldn’t be ignored. One of the things I realized when I quit smoking was that I had a hard time with finality. I didn’t want there to be a ‘last cigarette’. There was too much finality in that, and…
I used to be Bilingual
I always find myself in linguistic disagreements with people. Oddly enough, I never have these disagreements with people who are actually Bilingual. I have been bilingual my whole life, which is to say that while there objectively was a period of my life where I could only speak one language (my mother can attest to…
Journey of a word, idiolectically understood
I had a frustration the other day. It came, like many of my frustrations, from my using Duolingo. I was reviewing a lesson focusing on ‘family’ vocabulary, and I was translating from English to Greek. I made a mistake, but the nature of the mistake annoyed me. I misread a word. Simple as that. But…
Only an idiot would like this post
IMPORTANT NOTICE #2 After about a month of this post still getting likes despite my asking not, I went a head and changed the title so the clapping seals of WordPress go ahead and fuck off. IMPORTANT NOTICE This post is quickly becoming my most popular. Which is heartbreaking, because this was pretty low effort…
Keto and expertise, part 3 (I still have no idea what I am doing)
Right. The methodological framework of this post, or this blog, is that I have issues. But my issues are all epistemological issues. I don’t know, I don’t know how to know, and I am not convinced you do either. Come on a journey with me, and learn how additional information still means no god damned…
Some thoughts upon the death of Colin Powell [problems of exceptional epistemology]
Look at me being topical. Part of this is also an exercise in trying to get blog posts up in a reasonable amount of time. So, here goes. Colin Powell died recently, and I can’t say I was all that much bothered by it. I am not all that troubled by most people dying, particularly…
Education as a waste of time
I keep encountering people who think the education is a waste of time. These people have this weird divide between their own intelligence and education, a topic I have skirted around in the past, but this is a little bit different. These people think that intelligence is an inherent property of themselves, and not an…
Fake Podcasts
People have good ideas. Then, for the most part, companies come along and fuck it all up. Yes, that is me being needlessly mean. I am actually not a person who mindlessly nay-says everything that a large corporation has its hands on. I think that there are many parts of modern society that would never…
Memory is shit
This blog is mostly just a place for me to dump my thoughts. If at the same time I can get someone to have a laugh, or share something interesting, all the better. But there isn’t really any desire to do what the kids would call ‘original content’. I am not into that at all….
Keto and expertise, part 2.
In my previous post, I rambled on about my previous experiences with the Keto diet. I did this because I am toying with it again. I wrote these all at once, so do read the previous one if you’ve not yet. And now we get to the philosophy part of this blog post. I have…
Locus Horribilis 