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Making stuff, reading, cycling, programming, etc. Corvallis, OR
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We often confuse intelligence and success with expertise. Just because someone is smart and has found success in a specific domain, does not make them an expert in other domains.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

It is an invitation to disaster giving unilateral control of a broad set of expert systems to someone who has had very deep success in a very narrow domain, is often the smartest person in a room, and is never told when he isn't.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Marco Rubio has the look of a man who is just realizing the devil demands more from him in the deal for his soul.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

My interest in the "do audio books count as reading" question is not so much nailing down the category of reading but a desire to know more about someone's experience of reading. 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Cowboy boots are not a running through the airport shoe.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

2025 reads:

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

One of my favorite experiences reading is when a book takes a while to win you over and then completely converts you. You look back on a skeptical experience and now see genius there; some enlightened revisionism. Even better when this happens on the last page.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

If meaning is entirely subjective and we are merely heaping meaning on indifferent objects are we not also objects and then are not those objects of meaning more like soil that produces meaning in us and in so doing roots meaning in those objects, making meaning objective?

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Choosing reads by color scheme

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

I told someone my laptop password in a dream last night. Did I get incepted?

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

You know how sometimes you get a bag of chips with a few chips that probably went through the cooking process a couple times? I'm telling you I would pay extra for a bag of just those missed after the first go-around chips. Why isn't that a thing?

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Should I get some kind of Kindle mount for my gravel bike for long climbs and straightaways? I'm not seeing a downside.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments