Many who understand that suspicion is a strategy, not a model, persist in treating trust as a model, not a strategy.
Jul 082016
Jul 072016
The burden of mastery is to feel forever like a fraud.
Jul 062016
“Passionate advocacy” is among our politer terms for insanity.
Jul 052016
Liberty is a burden to the fearful.
Jul 042016
1. Summarize yourself in three words.
2. Prefix them with “aging.”
3. Repeat until the result is not embarrassing.
Jul 012016
Metaphoric wars have actual casualties.
Jun 302016
Matter makes space, and clocks make time.
Jun 292016
In philosophy correspondence and coherence vary inversely.
Jun 282016
History, in one sense, is a succession of ever-widening protection rackets.
Jun 272016
The most pleasing aesthetic effect is the happy accident.