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Nov 4, 2022
Twitter is an anti-compassion machine that stokes our tendency to dehumanize and even hate people we don't know personally. Four little exercises I use to combat that and crank up the compassion in my mind:
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Oct 19, 2022
In the 1600s there were two camps of geologists: The “flood geologists” whose starting point was that the Earth was 6,000 years old and therefore that wonders like sea shell fossils in the Grand Canyon must be a result of the biblical flood. And t
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May 12, 2022
Some mantras for political thinking: Truth is hard. Humility is hard. Independent thinking is hard. Resisting tribalism is hard. Over and over, you will forget that these things are hard, and that's probably when you'll fail at them. 1/5
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Dec 31, 2021
21 thoughts from 2021 I'd like to take into 2022: https://t.co/hdHCgGiYVj
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Feb 20, 2021
The human psyche has weather. When we feel bad about the present and future, it’s cloudy in our psyche. When our psyche is cloudy, it colors everything. Things feel gloomier, angrier, scarier, and more depressing. This of course has all kinds of nega
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