Silas Dogood

@SilDogood

At age 16, Franklin created the persona of a middle-aged widow, Silence Dogood. Every two weeks, he left a letter under the door of his brother's printing shop.

Joined November 2012

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  1. "Love the sinner, hate the sin" is a pretty appealing framework once you've seen the alternatives.

  2. ...more like principal-agent OPPORTUNITY amirite

  3. A poor artist who cannot attract patrons to fund him to buy better tools, blames his tools.

  4. "Epicycle" is hate speech directed by hedgehogs to foxes.

  5. Is school about learning or winning tournaments? Well, "redshirting" is a thing.

  6. Cultivated shamelessness always has a desperate, approval-seeking edge to it. "Reversed Shame Is Not Honor."

  7. Amy Chua's oeuvre: 1. "Market-Dominant Minorities Resented for Their Superiority" 2. "Hey Guys, My Market-Dominant Minority is Superior!"

  8. Wanted: "The Influence of The Influence of Sea Power upon History upon History"

  9. "the belief that it's better for 1000 patients to die of neglect, than 1 from quackery"

  10. People who started out reading sf to explore new worlds and strange civilizations reliably end up switching to reading history.

  11. Someone should write an essay on the limitations of the Flynn effect titled "If You're So Rich, Why Aren't You Smart?"

  12. Fewer moon shots but more environmental protection; fewer human relationships but more equality; fewer aqueducts but more Christianity.

  13. From the inside, institutional sclerosis feels like changing priorities.

  14. Shoot for the moon, for if you miss, you'll die a slow, agonizing death in the cold vacuum of space.

  15. First-rate reasoning requires first-rate brains. No heuristic can substitute for long.

  16. We laughed when the king asked for a royal road to learning. Then we spent the last two hundred years trying to build a People's Road.

  17. Population density is the mother of invention.

    • @LueYee

      Old high Anglican, high-Tory Confucian, radical national syndicalist, monarchist republican, localist, antiliberal dissident. Simul iustus et peccator.

    • @presentval

      Serving under Captain Monash, observing the Trump phenomena until it passes. Building for the next orbit. Contact me when you wish to join us.

  18. To succeed in school, answer the question right. To succeed in life, answer the right question.

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