In general, poor performance often indicates poor models;

I'm starting to think that procrastination by reading random articles does not cause you to rest, that is, you do not regain mental energy from it.  Success and happiness cause you to regain willpower; what you need to heal your mind from any damage sustained by working is not inactivity, but reliably solvable problems which reliably deliver experienced jolts of positive reinforcement.

Current campus offense codes are the embodiment of the belief that we can be shielded from the world with censorship and bureaucracy.

I've always had qualms about the “born this way” framing - if being gay was a choice, would society have any legitimate right to refuse people from making it? - but the simple reality is that gay people and trans people etc have always transcended restrictive social and religious environments in their interior life, even if it was too dangerous for them to express it.

dichotomize

useful Malcolm Gladwell-ish book

If you can detect a systematic mistake in your thinking, then fix it; if you can see a better method, then adopt it.

hokey

And if you’re a new artist and think you suck and are tempted to quit, maybe you just have great artistic sense and you should stick it out.

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

The Biden Administration's IRA is this American tradition at its best. It treats climate change as a problem of investment in the face of mild technological uncertainty.

As I like to tell my European counterparts, "America does social policy through investment and industrial policy." This means that the US has a very weak welfare state but is not a small state. The American government is very good at stimulating investment and cleaning up the consequences of bubbles. At its best, this makes the American economy extremely innovative and productive and creates many highly paid jobs and employer-provided benefits. However, at its worst, it leads to lost decades and massive inequality.

I found an interesting wikipedia article, followed the source, and found that, in fact, it appears that eidetic memory also includes remembering sounds!