An instinct I particularly hate:
Feeling the need to defend something I said just because *I* said it.
Reminds me of object persistence in design and psychology. "Ego persistence" might be a good term?
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I blame other people. If only they would stop trying to model me, I could let my ego decohere :)
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Who are you, again, and what are you doing in my mentions?
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whenever i catch myself doing this, i routinely think back to
@paulg 's essay on identity http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html -
You'll be interested to learn that Kevin explicitly mentions that essay in his 'About' page -- it's actually how I discovered the essay in the first place https://meltingasphalt.com/about/ pic.twitter.com/eBPByVmeyl
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