the first step is to believe everything
the second step is to stop believing things the moment it feels like work
it’s okay to hold 2 contradictory beliefs so long as they wear masks and stay 6 feet apart
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connecting dots is overrated
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Without critical thinking connecting the dots comes from what alternative process? twitter.com/vgr/status/131…
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Yes. After 21 you have to use alcohol if you want to continue pruning
fpga that shit, avoid people addicted to “seeing connections”
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Isn't part of brain development pruning connections?
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lateral thinking is also bad
it’s just critical thinking rotated 90 degrees
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any gains you make with critical or lateral thinking is paid for by blindspot growth somewhere else
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people who advocate critical thinking also like to remind you that correlation is not causation
this is not a coincidence
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you learn critical thinking by writing essays beginning with Webster’s dictionary definitions and avoiding Wikipedia links
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I once met an actual critical thinker. Like for real, not just an earnest kid working on college applications. It was like a communist funeral.
non sequiturs are your brain’s way of breaking out of thought funerals
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you think your thoughts, but your non sequiturs think you
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my plan is to dissolve into a string of untraceable non sequiturs before gen z decides to take me down for lulz
millennials are critical thinkers, so mostly harmless
but z’s are a scary generation, very psycho. call me paranoid but I suspect I’ll be karenzoned and targeted
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You were cited, Inception-style, in a article, that’ll be the downfall: breitbart.com/politics/2020/
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I’ve had multiple Boomer-GenX managing directors and VPs ask me “why does your generation always tow the line?” Think it’s very hit or miss with millennials. Maybe culture war is result of this schism between millennials?




