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  • the benefits of sucking at something

    the benefits of sucking at something

    In today’s the NYTimes, I found a thought-provoking article: (It’s Great to) Suck at Something “Maybe sucking at something where the stakes are low [emphasis mine] can lead us to a better place. Maybe it could be a kind of a medicine for the epidemic cocksureness in our culture. Seeing ourselves repeatedly doing something we…

  • Well this is meta …

    A blog post about the elements I want every blog post to include.

  • Getting back to blogging …

     … or trying to So here I am, at the beginning of a summer term, thinking that this is the time I will finally make my blog into a useful thing, and this is my first hour of working on it, and … I get stumped. I don’t actually want to start writing, or posting,…