If you want people to Languish, Control their Language If you want people to exercise the…
Post-pandemic life is like being a… Who comes home only to find Her parents have replaced Her obviously dead goldfish With a new one
A materialist looks around at ever… It’s all an accident His friend, the believer, adds his… It was an accident waiting to happ… The materialist and the believer a…
We don’t have to take care of our… But we have no choice God doesn’t have to be with us But He always is– The choice is ours
If you can catch someone lying to… you can figure out what they want… If you can catch yourself lying to… you can figure out your own desire The former can make you rich
People think artists are painting, dancing, writing, or… when really they’re all whistling past the graveyard
There was always an urn on the man… made from terra cotta Little then did I know it was for the remains of the persona non gra…
The trick is to craft a conformism so elaborate that you convince yourself it’s bespoke
When I got my first honey-do list after the wedding I explained to my bride that I us… until I was bitten by one of the 5… that don’t make webs
I was a bullshit artist until I realized a career as a bullshit scientist paid better
“A quantum state is not an element… instead, it represents the degrees… about the possible outcomes of mea… Just so: A mental state is not an element o…
The first half of life Is spent waiting for the inevitabl… But inevitably, you get distracted… Because a watched pot never boils The second half of life
“The week that AI went to scale” was immediately followed by “North America’s UFO weekend” as if all this time the UFOs had been waiting
Modern research methods have detec… that there’s no such thing as a ba… leaving scientists puzzled as to w… the whole bunch is still spoiled
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (C… Holds that there is a sequence In which an experience is followed… By a belief, a thought, and a feel… Fair enough