I'm going to try to do (probably mostly writing, maybe some video) a piece in public somewhere each day for July.
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July 1st was a newsletter post.
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I tend to value predictability of behaviour in cases where others don't, and as a result people often think I'm apologising when I'm not, and I get cranky when people blindside me, so I thought I'd explain why this matters and why people should do it more.
drmaciver.substack.com/p/telegraph-yo
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Today I wrote about how to write good definitions and why most definitions people provide are bad.
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People seem surprised that I never run out of things to write about, but it's mostly down to experiencing life as something worth writing about and then writing about it.
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A heuristic I like is that you're an expert at something when you're able to find the jokes funny, because this shows that you've got enough intuition about the field to have a well developed sense of incongruity.
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Because I’m an expert in spelling, I find your misspelling of quine rather hilarious. 🙃
(More seriously this is a very good piece, and I think it makes an important point — expectancies are a part of expertise, and if you are a novice you can’t subvert what you don’t have!)
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Whoops. 😬
The notebook blog is for slightly unpolished pieces, so it gets even less proofreading than my newsletter usually does, but even so.
Also, thanks!
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