Advice to new speakers
Public speaking is a great skill, and one that I strongly recommend people develop. The ability to get up in front of a crowd and speak to them is surprisingly useful in its own right, and besides...
View ArticleOpen to Interpretation
Let me tell you some stories. You are walking through the countryside, and meet a shepherd tending to his sheep. You strike up an idle conversation, in the course of which you ask him how many sheep...
View ArticleA Crash Course in Having Feelings
Disclaimer: I’m not a therapist, or any sort of expert on this. I just read a lot of books and have been working on it myself, and this is a distillation of some of that work. You should probably...
View ArticleThere’s no single error rate
This post is going to explain a couple of things that I often see people getting confused about. If you’ve got any background in statistics, decision theory, or similar it may be quite obvious to you...
View ArticleWriting Elsewhere
For the moment, this blog is on indefinite hiatus. I intend to return at some point and continue to use this as a place to write more fully formed essays, but right now I’m doing my writing elsewhere....
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