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The older I get, the more irritated I am by lines. Don’t see this trend reversing

We’re trying to figure out the recovery vs death rates of #2019nCoV. Some claim there are more deaths than recoveries. Any insight? Cc @HelenBranswell

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After this tweet, I know get Southwest ads on my timeline. Oh the irony

Next time you think “look at all these basic bitches in line at Starbucks” remember you’re also in line at Starbucks

Saw that Southwest flew 17 million passengers with “unconfirmed maintenance records.” And I thought: 17 million, no deaths, I think I’ll give this one to them. Then I remembered I’m getting on a flight today...

But I’m finding it’s not effective. I tend to get bored, or it gets difficult, and I never finish the book. And now I don’t have a level of expertise I want for myself in any particular field.

I have a tendency that when I want to dive into a field, I should read the best books in it, develop the prerequisites, and then I can start contributing. I value having a level of expertise first.

How important is studying vs practice for building expertise?

Found out last night flushable wipes aren’t actually flushable. And now I feel hopeless and out of options.

I have this impression that food trucks are just entrepreneurial enough to make people feel like they’re not wasting their time by starting one when they most likely are.

i have cognitive dissonance: 1. discipline is a key that unlocks nearly every pursuit, especially in the long term 2. i am not consistently disciplined is it more important to rectify #1 or #2?

Brilliant article. Bitterness towards an outgroup conflates with mating anxiety. As @yashkaf said, we use the same brain for both.https://twitter.com/yashkaf/status/1221802919445651463 …

“Woke” ideology is a secondhand ideology, wherein the “virtue of the month” must be constantly signaled and enforced. I for one resist any kind of virtue enforcement, but especially from those with any kind of secondhand source.

And you will see clearly, like a pebble in the brook, my very thoughts

It’s no secret that close intimate family and friend relationships are key to happiness and longevity. It is my belief that a shared identity, and a shared fate, is the terroir upon which these group structures thrive

But a family-level identity does not need to be in conflict with society-level identity, as if it’s some Italian crime family

Counter-culture movements are tribe-level identities rebelling against society-level identities

In eastern cultures, they ratchet this up to a society-level, or even species-level of identity. This is an anathema for most westerners