Stéphane 😶

Fast learners learn from reversible mistakes. Slow learners need irreversible losses for a change of heart

men will literally learn everything about ancient Rome instead of going to therapy

IFS type therapy assumes that you can treat parts as if they were people you can talk to, but what if some parts are more like cats?

New job idea: information dietician, writing "information diet plans" First step: status quo diagnosis and goal analysis Second step: write a plan of what should be read

A good rule of thumb: If an idea or finding makes for a good Ted Talk - if it's inspiring or makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside - it's wrong.

We mock teachers who said "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket!" twenty years ago. Twenty years from now, they'll mock us for saying "you won't always have a trillion-param language model to do your homework for you!"

@vaughn_tan Read Emanuel Todd’s thesis on this

in what countries do hereditary aristocracies still control vast tracts of ancestrally owned land? i'll start: the UK

@vaughn_tan what business do you have reversing on a roundabout??

today I I had to Google "how to put Renault Clio in reverse" while just blocking an exit on a roundabout

“Inspiresting” piece of recent cultural history. Was the TED talk the last bout of tech progressivism? Seems rather dated now thedriftmag.com/what-was-the-t…

Life is what happens while you're busy writing notes

I had mixed feelings about metamodernism until I realised it is about mixed feelings.