Philosophy has now added some fun, rude items to its lexicon: Asshole – (Coateian) A person who insists interactions happen on their terms. Bullshit – (Frankfurtian) Attempts to persuade without regard for truth; (Cohenian) Unclarifiable unclarity Jerk – A person…
Claim: intelligence matters in K-12 education. As an adult, reliability, hard work, and creativity matter more (in that order). As you get older, ability to grow and change matters most. I was once a really smart kid. At that age,…
So you’re writing a novel. Maybe you want to arrange it in a tried-and-true way. You start writing it in three acts, only to find out that some people don’t divide stories into three acts. Most of Shakespeare is five…
Twenty years ago, I started this blog with this post.1 Ten years ago, I missed my tenth anniversary.2 This year, I’d like to celebrate with listing meaningful milestones of the past twenty years: So that’s it! What will 2025 and…
I reconnected with an old friend today. Specifically, someone I dated very briefly. It ended poorly, as she and I had very different ideas as to what it meant to be friends or to date. Long-story short, our meeting was…
A few years ago, I decided to legally change my middle name. I didn’t know what it was going to be, but then, in the meantime, an awesome idea occurred to me! My middle name is now legally different. And…
I’ve been thinking about working out a lot, recently. Maybe it’s because I’m pushing 40 and tired of being out of shape.1 Call it CREFTS: I think there is a kind of exercise everyone can grow to like. I, for…
When I was nine or ten, I read Animorphs… a lot. I was active on the message boards and even tried to write my own story.1 One of the posters became an online friend of mine, AniJB.2 She hacked my…
Where are you? Was it something I did? Was it when I looked at you funny? Or when I didn’t update regularly for 15 years? Or that I’m just a sentient grape??1 Well, now that Twitter is over and social…
Oh, shit. Last year of my 30’s. Gotta live it up! 38 was maybe my favorite year ever. Hoping 39 isn’t too far off! Today, I just played games with three friends, Freddy, Syd, and Alexandra. A bunch of people…