Benya Fallenstein

I like this comment! I intend to respond to it more extensively at some point. For now, here is an unsatisfactory response that will be very rambly and probably off topic. At least some of whatever response I want to give is contained in Ben's recent post about the discovery of nature's laws.

Imagine that you meet someone you’re attracted to at a party. At one point, they smile at you, and you notice. You’re pretty sure they like you, but you really want to know whether they like you like you. You don’t act on this in any particular way, but you do spend the whole next week thinking about it. You think about other people who have been into you, and about people who have not, and the differences between them.

(This is a review of the entire sequence.) On the day when I first conceived of this sequence, my room was covered in giant graph paper sticky notes. The walls, the windows, the dressers, the floor. Sticky pads everywhere, and every one of them packed with word clouds and doodles in messy bold marker. My world is rich.