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When you notice that you’re talking past someone, what does it look like? Are they ignoring all the implications of the topic at hand (“I know the invasion of Iraq is causing pain, but isn’t the most important question ‘did they have WMDs?'”)? Or are they avoiding the object-level point...
[Epistemic Status: This post is aimed at people who've hurt loved ones by trying to fast talk their way out of apologies; remember the law of equal and opposite advice. A different version of this post, with examples drawn from responses to #MeToo, previously appeared on my blog.] When news...
For the past year, I've been eagerly awaiting the start of 2018. This wasn't out of any dissatisfaction with 2017, or because of any specific events that I expected to happen today. No, I was excited for 2018 because it meant I got to grade my 2017 predictions and make...
When you make continuous, incremental improvements to something, one of two things can happen. You can improve it a lot, or you can fall into superstition. I'm not talking about black cats or broken mirrors, but rather humans becoming addicted to whichever steps were last seen to work, instead of...