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Wanting to escape the present
I was a huge ZenHabits fan back in high school when he was more habits and less zen. I don’t really follow it these days, but I just happened upon this recent post and found it resonated a lot....
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A laptop employed as a nightlight
This post is kind of from two years ago. I got thinking about it again last night when I was reading Wait But Why’s The Cook and the Chef, an article describing how Elon Musk does what he does, which...
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Interfacing at the Speed of Thought
There are a lot of interfaces that irk me, not because they’re poorly designed in general, but because they don’t interface well with my brain. In particular, they don’t interface well with the speed...
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Reveal Culture
I have things to say about the Ask/Guess/Tell Cultures model, and an addition/amendment to propose: Reveal Culture. Shifting cultures is hard, so what you’re about to read is not going to have a...
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Introducing the Cast (of Malcolm Ocean)
Hi! I’m Interface. You may remember me from A ritual to upgrade my Face. I’m the part of Malcolm that navigates most social situations, and represents the bulk of his personality. I also like...
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Expectations: Entitlements & Anticipations
Expectation is often used to refer to two totally distinct things: entitlement and anticipation. My basic opinion is that entitlement is a rather counterproductive mental stance to have, while...
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Deconstruction of “Criticism”
Earlier this week, Julia Galef posted a brief piece to facebook on unsolicited criticism. I started to reply, and then semi-accidentally wrote something blog-post length and somewhat tangential to the...
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Selling to friends (and telling crushes you like them)
I was chatting with a friend of mine the other day, who remarked: I’ve got a question for you… I’m working at this company where I get a referral bonus for new hires or new customers, and when I told...
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Acts of Speech and States of Mind
Much of this post was originally drafted a couple years ago, so the personal stories described in here took place then. I’m publishing it now in part because the novella that inspired it—Ted Chiang’s...
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To trust or not to trust is NOT the question
This post was adapted from a comment I made responding to a facebook group post. This is what they said: Trusting isn’t virtuous. Trusting should not be the default. Care to double crux me? (I believe...
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