this is the most gorgeous and iconic building in brooklyn and perhaps even in all of new york.

the IDEs of march

my problem with therapists is that they are too often the kind of people who simply studied to become a therapist. expertise borne purely out of theory i need to be counseled by a career airline pilot or an underwater welder or something

some people just get it. you throw ideas in the air, they catch them, toss them back, stretch them, remix them. they understand that thinking is a live process, not a checklist. every conversation feels like a high bandwidth exploration, open-ended, dynamic, fun. my friends are

not now babe it's my google maps time

People tend to self sort into subcultures that best excuse their weaknesses.

i can always count on uk rap to tell me how many people were in the car

i think one of the things you need in life if you're a certain kind of nerd is one domain of knowledge, almost doesn't matter what it is, that you just know cold, like the back of your hand. a sort of intellectual home base that you can return to and draw strength from, the

Guy Who Memorizes horrified to discover that Guy Who Simply Gets It incidentally remembers just as much

fucking insane. some fish use electrical signals to navigate; if two fish on the same frequency encounter each other, they automatically switch frequencies to avoid "signal jamming" each other. exactly like how your wifi router does at home. wow.

substack should really support inline latex

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