prioritization researcher, master of logic, baby parent
Joined May 2021
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14 Nov 2025
I wrote a little history of washing dishes, from scouring pewter with horsetail to the Chicago World's Fair to modern environmental concerns. You can read it at Works in Progress! I'm also happy to report that the topic was thoroughly baby-approved. worksinprogress.co/issue/inv…
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Jun 11
Today in "wow we are much wealthier than we used to be": this book from 1943 shows a family staying in their ACTIVELY BURNING HOUSE to throw their furniture out the window. That would be so insane now. Just get out, you're risking death in there! You can buy new chairs!!!
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Jun 1
Famously an unsolved problem
Jun 1
So, what is the minimum acceptable standard of living that it is morally necessary to provide for your children? Like if you hit this standard, you don't have to work harder. Or, you can have another child, if you hit this standard. What's the line. Who is right. What is the morally correct answer. Is anyone going to come down and tell us?
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May 28
Go Dog Go is the only abridged board book on our shelves, because it's the only one that actually represents an improvement. The original is insufferable
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May 28
SF City Hall is weirdly a great place to hang out with a toddler. It's beautiful, it's calm but it's not so quiet that toddler noises are disruptive, there are two big empty skylit carpeted rooms to run around in, some exhibits to look at, and excellent stairs to climb
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May 18
My baby's favorite movie is the animated instructions at the self-checkout. Cathedrals everywhere I suppose
May 6
5yo just told me the promotional reel playing in the cheese department at the grocery store is the best movie she’s ever seen. May have overdone it on the no screens thing
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May 10
My mother and my baby, ~1.5y ago and yesterday. Some of my favorite pictures ever. Happy mother's day!
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Apr 27
Now that Rock-a-bye Baby is definitely my lifetime most-sung song, I'm wondering what it used to be. The obvious contenders (happy birthday, national anthem, school song) seem pretty weak when I really think about them. But what else would it be?
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Apr 21
Oh no, I just remembered, it's all my fault
13 May 2025
I've had some success with "people keep using all this water that could be used to cool data centers instead"
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Apr 20
Awed by the ambition of this tweet... you're telling me that all 8 billion people who have never done this need to spend 15 minutes weaving cheese into their toast. This tweet has assigned humanity a 225,000 person-year megaproject
Apr 18
If you’ve never woven cheese into your toast before, you need to try this!
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Apr 9
I actually used to live in Amsterdam, so if any of my followers ever need help navigating the city with upwards of $100k on the line... dm me
Anyway I've been meaning to buy this for a while and today seems like a good day
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Apr 2
A few new acquisitions! Special shout-out to Bubble Trouble, which is a pure delight to read. If you're the kind of person who's looked in vain for a board book version of Poe's The Raven, you need Bubble Trouble in your life
Feb 14
There are very few baby books that 1. are available in board book format, 2. have rhyme and rhythm, and 3. aren't absolutely awful at rhyme and rhythm. This is, like, basically all of them:
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Apr 2
For the record, The Pout-Pout Fish and Little Blue Truck are more in the category "I'm willing to forgive some metrical issues because it's a very good book overall." And because "pah pah fsss" was the second book title my baby learned, after "boo baa la la" of course
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Erin Braid retweeted
Some simple & creative ways to say you're not enjoying a social event: "did you mean for this to be type 2 fun?" "do you typically exempt your events from counterfactual use of time considerations?" "is the feedback form anonymous?"
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Mar 19
I must reluctantly admit that I've found the killer app for LLMs for me personally, and it's simply this:
"Please give me an overview of [technical topic]. I have a pure math background, and you can assume that I'm very comfortable with abstraction and analytical thinking."
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Mar 19
I just want to take "Intro to [X] for Mathematicians," though of course it's obvious that there's not enough demand for that class to exist. But now some facsimile does exist!
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Mar 19
If educational materials tend not to work for you, *and you can articulate why*, I think it's worth giving an LLM a shot at it.
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