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A different and better way to live
Here’s a pattern you might recognize: You have some goals you care about. Say, for instance, you want to develop a personal exercise routine, or you want to make your tech startup profitable. You know these goals will take a lot of discipline to achieve, and perhaps you’ve even tried and failed at them multiple times before. So you decide it’s time to “get serious” and really “lay down the law.” Perhaps you try to channel the spirit of Michael Jordan or some other hard-driving athlete you admire.
A nation of, by, and for builders
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A nation of, by, and for builders
As I reflect on what Independence Day means to me, an emotionally fraught ticker tape of memories and associations passes through my mind.
“Intellectual humility” is a copout
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“Intellectual humility” is a copout
If you follow the latest social science research, the rationalist blogosphere, or Y Combinator’s Hacker News, you’ve probably encountered the calls to “intellectual humility.” Its proponents rightly caution us against the false and easy certainty characteristic of so many on all sides of the culture wars. But their implied solution is to renounce certainty as a goal—which is at best a copout, and at worst a capitulation to the deadliest dogmas around today.
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I'm back (sort of)! And I've published a new Every piece...
I’m some mix of pleased, grief-stricken, excited, relieved, and trepidation-filled to share that baby Adam has officially begun his education at Guidepost Montessori’s amazing new “Picco” school house (as pictured above and further detailed by my husband Matt here). So you can expect more long-form posts to start trickling in again once I’ve dug my way out from under all the emails and end-of-semester tasks that’ve piled up for me in meantime.
PSA (Public Self-Admonishment)
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