Not a Chef Here
I don’t cook. In fact, I think it would be more accurate to say I can’t cook! Perhaps sufficient repetition in the kitchen would change this state of affairs, but I would find that boring, so I don’t...
View ArticleFighting Self-Handicapping: Success Is Nonlinear
After mentioning self-handicapping in a post about cognitive biases a couple of weeks ago, I had a conversation with someone about it, and we shared our angst about how easy it can be to self-sabotage....
View ArticleOn the Penny: Let Go, America. Let Go.
The United States of America has been in an economic crisis. It seems like if we could make a small change that would save us hundreds of millions of dollars per year, we’d do that, right? And yet we...
View ArticleMonopolies and Powerlessness
For the work I do in Hollywood, there is a certain industry directory I have to be in (“have to” meaning, “massively professionally hindered if I refuse”). It’s a terribly run service, but the fact...
View ArticleModern America’s Obsession with Clothes
So I had to go clothes shopping a few weeks ago for an event. Now, I haven’t gone full-on clothes shopping since . . . a long time. Many years. I’ve bought the odd piece of clothing I needed or...
View ArticlePseudoephedrine (Sudafed) and Levothyroxine (Synthroid): Anecdotal Account of...
This is one of those posts that probably won’t interest regular readers but I’m posting so it’s indexed in search engines for people who may be looking for people’s experiences on the subject. I will...
View ArticleIn Defense of Hubris
I have always been of the opinion that “hubris” gets a bad rap—particularly when it’s a label slapped on scientific or technological ventures that turned out to go horribly wrong. I am a sucker for...
View ArticleIn Which I Rant for 1,600 Words on Cheating and Plagiarism
Sometimes it seems like not enough people care about plagiarism anymore. I can’t describe the level of revulsion I feel when I hear about people talk glibly about putting their own names on others’...
View ArticleAdulthood is really long.
There tends to be a bit of a scramble, I’ve observed, for young adults to “figure things out.” People start feeling “behind” if by, say, age 30 they don’t have the good job, the significant other, the...
View ArticleSuicide
Trigger warning: suicide, mental illness, physical illness — philosophical discussion only, no personal experiences, but not positive or uplifting. IF IN DOUBT DO NOT READ. Last night I retweeted the...
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