aspiring erisologist ("the study of disagreement and intellectual difference") | Author of "Competitive Sensemaking" (amazon.com/dp/9153149297)
Joined March 2017
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Jun 3
A big part of cultivating consciousness is to start noticing when you notice things without noticing that you're noticing them.
Jun 2
I asked my bf about my makeup & he told me “I don’t notice eyelashes” & I said you don’t notice peoples eyes?? He said “I notice eyes, I don’t notice lashes”
Not 2 wks later my SIL asked my brother about a reporters crazy lashes. He said “I’ve never noticed eyelashes in my life”
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Jun 1
There is certainly kind intentions behind the idea of validating and respecting every little discomfort, but the side effect of cultivating society-wide anxiety disorders is worth taking seriously.
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May 29
It's weird how easy intermittent fasting is when you get used to it. I haven't eaten anything for 20 hours and I don't feel it at all.
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May 27
Any, honestly. I'm not sweating that.
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May 5
Because in this moral system, there's a certain level of wealth that you're entitled to expect (it's where the line between "needs" and "wants" go; you're entitled to have all of your needs and none of your wants satisfied). Wanting to keep any more than that is greedy, wanting more so you can *reach it* is not.
May 5
“I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
Thomas Sowell
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May 1
A good man with any backbone will absolutely be offended by that. The double standards on this issue are insane.
May 1
i know “a good man wouldn’t be offended by that statement” but OPENING a conversation (and responding to a compliment) with “men are generally terrible” is awful too. can no one flirt anymore?
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Apr 30
I like that he's leaning into who he is. I respect it.
Apr 30
This is her vaginal microbiome report. 100/100 score.
Top 1% of all vaginas.
Her sample is dominated by the single most protective bacterial species a vagina can host (Lactobacillus crispatus).
Only about 25-30% of reproductive age women globally are L. crispatus-dominant, and “dominant” usually means above 50%. Kate is at 98.7%.
The lab found nothing bad to report. (no gardnerella, Candida, STIs, opportunistic pathogens, aerobic vaginitis markers, etc.)
This is linked to lower risk of BV, UTIs, yeast infections, HPV persistence, HSV-2 and HIV acquisition, preterm birth, and improved IVF outcomes.
A vaginal microbiome is downstream of everything: sleep, glucose control, stress, gut health, sexual health, immune function, what you eat, and what you put in it.
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Apr 28
Always relevant! 😎
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John Nerst retweeted
Apr 24
A common pattern among evil people is to use one individual’s wrongdoing to justify wrongdoing a *different* individual.
You see this here, you see this when discussing historical reparations, you see this in many implementations of DEI…
Is it really so hard to understand “these bastards steal from us all the time, so we might as well steal from them?”
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Apr 24
How tiresome. Neither water nor ice has agency and there's no reason it's right to say that one does something to the other and not the reverse.
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Mar 31
Just arrived at Lighthaven after 22 hours in transit. Worn but looking forward to an interesting week!
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Mar 26
This is such a funny debate. Wdym "count as"? Counts for what purpose? In what context? (Narcissistic brownie points obviously but that's dumb in the first place).
On an unrelated note: check out chapter 10 in my book Competitive Sensemaking (link in profile), about what it means for a thing to "count as" something socially.
Mar 24
Hot take! Audiobooks do NOT count as "reading" the same way picking up a book does.
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Mar 23
Proud to announce that in one week I'll be on a long flight to California to be an advisor at Inkhaven (inkhaven.blog)! Looking forward to meeting a lot of interesting people.
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Mar 23
It's funny with this passage... for a second, as a rhetorical flourish, I decide to inhabit the mind of censors (actual villains) in order to actually live the perspective-taking ethos my book is built around, and more than once it leads to people (not Peter) thinking I genuinely support censorship.
Mar 23
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Mar 23
It was always a question whether it should be "villains", or the more literal "the enemy", but I decided to have this little extra spice. Maybe foolish
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Mar 23
Holy crap
Mar 23
Highest recommendation.
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Mar 17
If you measured a shitload of stuff on people's bodies (and minds) I'd wager you'd get a pretty relevant first principal component.
Mar 17
Quick question to everyone out there who believes that sex is a bimodal distribution….
What are the labels on the axes of the graph that creates this bimodal distribution?
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