All posts tagged "seths.blog"
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Principle is inconvenient
A principle is an approach you stick with even if you know it might lead to a short-term...
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Two kinds of limbo
Uncomfortable limbo happens when we’re seeking firm footing and there isn’t any. The discomfort comes from not knowing,...
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Persistently irrational
When people around you do something that makes no sense or is self-defeating, it might not be because...
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The first rule of the game
“All players must agree to not cheat.” It’s simply too difficult to enumerate all the rules necessary to...
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What does it mean to be smart?
Termites and squirrels are successful. They’ve persisted through millennia, and they do things to survive that we could...
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Professional wrestling
It’s a theater of status. Professional wrestling isn’t about wrestling, of course. It’s about who’s up and who’s...
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Dancing with belief
All of us believe things that might be inconsistent, not based on how the real world actually works...
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In support of the hard-working teacher
Sometimes I talk about the education-industrial complex on this blog, rarely with kindness. I captured much of that...
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Self-directed, project-based learning
Why do educated people too often fall for foolish scams and conspiracy theories? The problem is that no...
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Toward tired
If this was a blog post about running, I’d definitely be teaching things that would make you tired....
