Easy or Hard xkcd.com/2682

What's it called when you're writing about imposter syndrome and start to worry that you aren't describing common experiences, just your own personal neuroses?

“If a potato became prime minister the world would change!” Indeed. Potatoes have a much longer shelf life youtube.com/watch?v=yQ9IOE…

'Be More Resilient'. As a psychologist, it was a surprise to me when parents started telling me how much they hated the word 'resilience'. To me it sounded like a good word, an empowering one. Not to them. Here's what they tell me. (with Missing The Mark) 1/

In an age of information overabundance, critical ignoring is as important as critical thinking.

Great, absolutely brutal new paper on epistemic injustice from Gaile Pohlhaus. Guns-blazing attack on some current approaches to epistemic injustice. Accuses them of maintaining focus on healing the perpetuators of bias, while ignoring its victims. academia.edu/67970429/Epist…

There is a truck outside my house with the company name 'Extreme Scaffolding' emblazoned on the side. I feel like if anything about your scaffolding is akin to a high-adrenaline sport, then what you have there is the opposite of a marketing tool

My short novella, The Cold Iron of Summer, is out -- a re-imagining of a Welsh myth, with a death god power couple and four seasons of war and intrigue. Plus a gorgeous cover by Bookfly Design 🪶 Link: amazon.com/dp/B0BXBQSM3F #fantasy #selfpublished #WritingCommunity

Oh, god, it just occurred to me that the crowd at the London Marathon must all have got the alert at once

I did it. I found the greatest use of GPT

Grasshoppering: When the conversation you are in leads to you leaping rapidly through a series of thoughts, and you want to talk about the last thought, but also clarify that you WERE DEFINITELY LISTENING and IT DOES RELATE. Usage: "Just grasshoppering from that"

There is an ice cream truck outside playing the theme from the Godfather. Call me a traditionalist, but if it's music that wasn't composed by Henry VIII in an attempt to seduce Anne Boleyn, then ice cream trucks have no business playing it over loudspeakers

the problem with replacing a skill with a tool isn’t that you might one day have to work without the tool, but that skills almost always shared across domains in subtle ways and their loss in these cases will pass unnoticed