a course with only two students that you travel 80km to teach every week can still be a great success if they happen to be particularly good students > "the only course in history where all its attendees received a Nobel Prize" x.com/burkov/status/…

I’m feeling quite fascinated by this “art including the pandemic” question What stands out to me is that (A) we each went through something, and (B) we were isolated while it happened

peepee poopoo

Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson it's fundamentally fascinating to me why the cosmos has such an extreme tendency to create centers, planets, clusters, nexuses, structures, harmonies, hierarchies

Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson but everyone is like yeah whatever I like blueberries and galaxies, what the fuck are you talking about meekaale, yeah it's great that we live in a cosmos that affords fractal fields of coherent intelligible centers but sir this is a wendy's

INCOMPREHENSIBLE FLOW

Obvious in retrospect, but TIL "orientation" comes from "facing east"

I miss vgr threads x.com/vgr/status/142…

i feel like various content specific emotional cruft is the dark matter of the STEM world invisibly governing what makes some domains click or not click for diff types of people

like, "math trauma" is a very coarse and quite overt/obvious version of this. i think it can get very specific, like "i jive with most of abstract algebra but rings make me subtly sad such that i never spent much time on them"

Off twitter until after the US election, have fun everyone

I guess I can still shill things on here. I'm alive and working at Antithesis in London. It's been fun watching this slightly mad Hegel-themed project take shape