People absolutely HATE this, but it's true! It's just way better and more important for society for a young couple to be able to buy a larger house and start a family than it is to prioritize older owners hanging on to huge homes they no longer need, memories be damned.

One of my profs said before a big presentation she’d unscrew the screws on the glass conference table a bit, bc the clients (who were all men) would always lean down on the table and when the screws were loose it wobbled, so they’d apologize and it completely changed the dynamic

I've said it before and I'll say it again: NOTHING good happens on private islands. You're Epsteining, Jurassic Parking, or Squid Gaming. Stick to public islands, people.

Better late than never!

The recent Derrida discourse reminded me of this post

People talk about looksmaxxing but you should be serendipitymaxxing: Get outside more often, try that new thing, say hi to the person next to you on the plane, ask a stranger if you can sit next to them for coffee, go eat alone at that restaurant you want to try, walk in a new

i'm working on a longer review but the tl;dr is that if you've read it before, you'll want to read the new version because it's significantly different enough and it's also better

My three-year-old refers to his imagination as "my magic," and this is why children are the best.

Every couple generations we remove a load bearing rule because the problem no longer exists and find out why the rule existed.

Neils Bohr theory regarding a cliche of Westerns

An idiot in motion will always go further than a genius at rest.

What a beautiful quote by James Baldwin: (Life Magazine 1963)

I think Wittgenstein ultimately didn't like Shakespeare for the same reason Tolstoy didn't like Shakespeare: they wanted literature to have a moral purpose, and they found it disconcerting that the greatest writer who ever lived wasn't particularly interested in saving us.

The Ocean was invigorating. I definitely see the appeal of California.

Whatever you do, please don't stop reading. Read for entertainment. Read for education. Read for enlightenment. Read for empowerment. Just keep reading.

A bit of wisdom in Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism. (h/t ⁦Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP)⁩)