They are simpler, more straightforward and 10,000 percent less scary as teenagers. My family was headed by a proper, proper boy and I always believed it made the difference. He set the tone for our entire childhood and I loved every second of it. Do not tell your sister (or teach her...
Brian: I think that's exactly right. You have these parallel things happening, you have the algorithm, which is maybe nudging you towards more extreme thinking. But within these groups, you're saying, there's an awareness that if they go right to the more extreme stuff, it co...
Evolution had to first make human beings, who then build all kinds of useful stuff. So analogously, there may be minds that are vastly smarter than our own, but which are just not accessible to evolution on Earth. It's possible that we could build them, or invent the machines that ...
Well. I am woke, and radical, but abashed as well as terrified by Trump’s win and looking for connection. I hold back my refutation for a moment. He owns 17 of these shops. He’s been in Lithuania running one. He sells puzzles, juggling equipment, other circus stuff. He had a wom...
In those rooms, I had to come to terms with the fact that life is inherently scary. It’s risky, or nothing at all. I spent nine months as a black hole in the galaxy of my life to really internalize that. I can’t say it was worth it. I’d like to come to some sort of co...
Editors must cut stuff out. Sometimes excising large trivialities and at other times desperately seeking just the right sliver to insert; a true editor must value content. You got to have the right footage first! Useful footage. Call it cinema, film, a movie, or the name derived from the ...
( I really hate it when prizes are stacked around the fastest runners who already have a cloak of glory to swoosh around in) Here you are knee deep in groovy stuff for everyone, oodles of age groups things, random spot prizes and little gifts to show their appreciation if you make a ...
this total coverage bathing costume. I suffered the swamp in a girdle of cling wrap. Felipé would need some serious dental floss to pick this hellacious spandex stuff out of his incisors. The turquoise water glinted. I moved to the empty head of the pond. Felipe did the dead man’s fl...
The need to make warning messages interesting is obvious. Yet my clients often talk themselves into ignoring it. “This is pretty dull stuff,” they privately admit. “Nobody’s going to be listening.” And then they shrug and give the presentation anyway. They decide that it’s important ...
Ultimately what we want is there to be access to reality. We need to know what is going on. From there, we can express whatever opinion we want about what to do, but the thought that the Russian people are so out of touch with what is going on is scary. The thought that we could...