Thought Overflow...

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A collection of 24 issues

good intentions

...not combined with good patterns/best practices not only pave the way to hell, the road is a bit bumpy. in a hospital, the nurses not only desire not to kill patients, they check 3 times that the actions they take are correct similarly best practices are important, esp when

when is an argument logical? and why that requires an intimacy

Not in the sense of correct or incorrect conclusions, but in the sense of when is an argument or discussion between two people actually a logical argument? Only if it takes place in a single axiomatic space. (which is rarely the case!) In order to actually have a logical argument,

Raw Comforts

For work, I've been put up in 400/night, fancy hotels with player pianos and gleaming artwork, in suites with jacuzzi tubs with views of Hollywood Hills or right in the middle of Mardi Gras. And I appreciate it. But, for some reason its comforting getting takeout on

advising is fun because

if you give someone ideas, and they put in the work to bring them to life, it's like

its not so much that the perfect is the enemy of the good, its that the ideal is the enemy of the real

The lighter side of activism...

So I signed a petition today at dailyKos, asking congress to prevent Trump from having the authority to start a nuclear war. And I thought, well, petitions aren't very effective and I don't know if this will do any good. But at least, if there is

Omit Needless Motions : thoughts on the Alexander technique

A friend introduced me yesterday to the Alexander technique, which after reading about on various websites, I still know very little about. Here is why I consider that a failing in principle. I am not merely a demanding, impatient, spoiled American, though I am those things too. But the technique,

took me long enough: the key..

..to a good life is having a framework in which you can spend the bits of time doing good things, things in line with your long term deep goals. That's it. And that's the software I really want to write, the thing that ties together the

quiet thoughts

so many things that cannot be said...at least the good thing about voice is it doesn't leave a record

Writing anonymously and what's wrong with Google Plus

Second things first: Google Plus is too all-encompassing and controlling. I can't get a feed to publish elsewhere, or hack at, or stream, or store as text. Anything I write there lives ONLY in Google Plus, it seems, and can be taken out only manually. And I'