IN THIS HOUSE WE
- REPLY like it's IMPROV
- hold our beliefs LOOSELY
- be FRIENDLY, AMBITIOUS NERDS
- FLIRT with ABANDON
- MUTE POLITICAL RETWEETS
- AMPLIFY the GOOD
- DISTRUST UNHAPPY INTELLIGENCE
and always ALWAYS like before replying
told someone i was a physics grad and she said ooh can you tell me if crystals have power and i said what kind of power and she was like can they be energetically charged in the sun and i was like some of them can and she was like ooh and i was like solar panels
it continues to be wild to me that if the cinnamon tree didn't happen to exist there just *wouldn't be cinnamon flavour* and yet you'd still have the *capacity to taste cinnamon* and there are surely thousands of flavours you could taste that just happen to not exist
to understand men you have to realize that we have this shape hard-coded into our attention network. there's nothing to be done about it. if this shape is in my visual field and you think i don't notice it, that's because i'm pretending
most kids will develop perfect pitch if you expose them to enough sufficiently complex music before the age of 5, but in our current modern world we give most kids nothing but baby songs. miss the critical periood, and then treat perfect pitch as some kind of rare genetic gift
i feel like when we really understand the brain and body there are going to be some really benign-seeming things that are just super bad for your emotional development. top of my suspected list is being woken up by an alarm every day
match with cute 35yo asian girl
good banter, witty and fun, she seems super smart
talk about rationality, religion, personality psychology
plan a date for friday, i say i'll pick the place
psyched, go do some work with spring in my step
come back to app
unmatched 💀
"men used to go to war" yeah war used to be a good balance of glory and risk, now it's hell
you know when the phrase "war is hell" is from? the civil war--the first war to use machine guns
before that war was still bad but it wasn't like "survive the Nightmare Machine" bad
i briefly dated this girl who was very academic anthropology social justice coded and one time i said to her "you can't just believe things because it would be bad if they weren't true" and she stopped and went "but that's kind of why i believe most things"