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This older man came thru work today and ordered his wife a latte.. I asked him hot or iced, and he paused.. “give me both and I’ll drink the one she doesn’t want…” And that’s on 43 years of marriage. Well played, Sir.

… the lesson is simple, friends —Believe in yourself and what’s possible through simple consistency rather than cynically disbelieving both in yourself and others. Ours is a world where most shout down excellence without ever simply attempting it themselves. Break that cycle.

Things you didn’t know that you didn’t know. 100% worth listening too

Yudkowsky’s tweet here, being an analysis that recommends meta-meta-analysis, is a meta-meta-meta-analysis. My tweet pointing this out is a meta-meta-meta-meta-analysis. This is a demonstration of Yudkowsky’s Law: the 3rd iterated meta is the highest level with any importance.

Saw a father & son at the gym and it occurred to me that I think I see grandfathers & grandsons working out together.

"Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves." -- G. K. Chesterton

Weird situation where firefighters (mostly) don’t fight fires anymore

In orbital mechanics, "sphere of influence" does not mean what many people say it means. johndcook.com/blog/2022/12/1…

The most Berkeley thing imaginable is being a main campus of the Manhattan Project, but only disavowing the peaceful use of nuclear technology

Sarah Vaughan - Misty “There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.”

There’s a subtlety here that is lost on nearly all students when they first see it, e.g. when studying a pendulum.

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.” — Charles Mingus