Moving to Chiang Mai, Thailand, was surprisingly easy.
Good TV
We live in a golden age of TV. This thought is not original to me—I think I first read it in one of those Slate- or Atlantic-type thinkpieces—but I’m putting it here anyway, in case it’s one that hasn’t occurred to you yet.
Things everyone should know by age 18
I think the world would be a better place if everyone graduated high school with this knowledge:
A brand identity crisis
My current logo is a slice of grapefruit. I was happy with this until last night, when I started watching a Jim Gaffigan comedy special in which he called grapefruits the worst fruit.
On heartbreak
It’s tempting to look for someone who loves you more than you love them. This is a mistake.
The perfect lemon cheesecake
This recipe never fails to get rave reviews.
Categories – v1 (draft)
Update—Sept. 17, 2022: Categories (v2) is the better version of this post.
Update (from sometime in 2015, when I first wrote this as part of a school essay): You know what’s depressing? Stumbling across something that says in two sentences what you already said in a whole blog post. Whereas I need 1700 words to get my point across, the brilliant Paul Graham puts the same idea in a mere footnote.
Spoiler alert, here’s the conclusion of this whole post:
The intellectually honest argument for not discriminating between various types of people… is not that everyone’s the same, but that it’s bad to do wrong and hard to do right.[1]
Such elegance. -sigh-
How to get your students to participate in class
What can professors/instructors/underpaid teaching assistants do to encourage student participation?
Read more →You should probably fear the apocalypse
I think more people should fear the apocalypse. Well not the apocalypse, exactly, as if it were one single ominous event, but the myriad things that could cause an apocalyptic scenario.
Read more →Does lack of free will imply fatalism?
Sam Harris—neuroscientist, pop philosopher, and author of the book Free Will—says there’s no such thing as free will.