The Snail Shell

I guess this guy Bruce Hood wrote a book about how the "self" is an illusion, or rather, an emergent phenomenon. He explains it b...

A couple of thoughts about how to live better . Mostly it's context. Design your world in advance to help you be as good as possible ...

I read his biography. I am struck by a few things: 1. We really venerate him in nerd circles, but he was in many ways not a good person. ...

Almost four years ago I started a new career in a new town. Now I'm doing it again. The last one worked out pretty okay, but I can do ...

Yes! I wanted to come back to the states and try something new , get into a bigger pond, really get out and expand my life, throw off the s...

40 hour work weeks are actually better all around than longer ones . Academics: going to publish a paper? Check if that journal supports ...

Done all the visits! They were all great. For each school, I'd rather do a PhD there than not do a PhD there. And for each city, I...

I'm deciding where to go to grad school, right, and where to spend the next 5-6 years of my life. It's a tough choice with a lot of...

Some studies, mostly from Richard Wiseman via Eric Barker , about people that I find maybe useful: Smelling rosemary makes you smarter ? ...

I'm viscerally afraid of bugs and needles. Seeing a bug (a big one, a stingy one, or a cockroach inside) makes my blood run cold. Seei...

or, "Dan gets mad at pop culture twice." Limitless. Well, this one was actually not bad. It's fun. Guy finds drug that mak...

I don't know if anyone likes these posts, but at the very least, it's a good list of things I found interesting once and might want...

This thought has been running through my head a lot recently. (Anyone know the actual quote?) Think about the first time you had vodka. I...

1. Sgt. Pepper's (A Day in the Life) 2. The Bends (Street Spirit (fade out)) 3. Speaking in Tongues (This Must Be The Place (Naive Me...

I am thinking that almost all instances of people being awesome occur in situations of plenty, and almost all instances of people being cru...

This is part of a work in progress; I have a lot of ideas floating around and I'd like to track their progression over time. Tourism...

I'll be going through Angkor Wat or Hampi or something, and I'll think "this is like a scene from Myst or Riven." My stan...

Maybe. I am still meditating, but not as much or as effectively as I was in September or October. The biggest reason is continued travel. S...

Email doesn't ruin real-world relationships . Facebook increases your social support a lot . The internet is good for you. This is good...

"Things are as they are": this seems about the fourth thing you say after you live in a place for a while. First, "place X ...