The Snail Shell

I joke that I spend half my time worrying about where to live, and half my time worrying about having kids. Hah! It's really more like ...

Magic cards! (background: I loved Magic cards ( wiki ) when I was a kid. In college, I stopped because I didn't want people to think ...

Whenever I try to debate most anything, if I'm being honest, I haven't a dang clue. It requires learning details of how a law works...

Predictive drawing with neural networks This is one of these things that I saw once and can't seem to find the exact same gif. It was ...

( here's part 1 ) Hard to find guides for CA-wide races! Here's the  Chronicle . Here's  one from Planned Parenthood . Here...

Having feelings is hard. Making decisions is hard because having feelings is hard. Reasoning in ways that will be good to your future feeli...

I mostly follow these, from SF Yimby . I also try to follow these, from SPUR . The SF Bike Coalition is mildly important to me. And if I...

Let's assume, for this conversation, that Mozart > Bieber: For this post, I'm going to assume a simplified account of musical t...

Name of the Year is going on now, down to the Sweet Sixteen. Current status: - Bulltron Regional is a powerhouse. Looks like Salami Bless...

You can too, if you're so inclined:  https://samharris.org/podcasts/123-identity-honesty/ . If you're not, please ignore this whole...

Podcast interview with Dan Pink, pop-psych author; mentioned how he finds writing a book proposal really helpful because it helps him think...

In this case, it's Annihilation. Sci fi/horror movie about an area in Florida that has become kind of shimmery, and nobody who goes in ...

Like, I sweat Gilliam's movies pretty hard. Ask Tati about Brazil. I like it much more than I should. I'll go out of my way to tell...

I heard him on Sam Harris's podcast (who I also  have mixed feelings about but often agree with) and Harris had basically the same iss...

Being an adult has a lot more upsides than being a kid. It's kinda harder too, and in different dimensions than being a kid was hard. L...

There should be a code you can adhere to in order to signal "I am sincere, and probably not going to make things worse." Somethin...

Starting soon after the Trump election, I started posting, then curating/coordinating, a daily email list of advocacy things. I also subscr...

Christianity has a lot of good things about it, a lot of Christians are wonderful, etc. As a highschoolman, I talked to some teachers (some...

(feel free to apply Betteridge's Law ) (also: note that I discuss nonexistence, and suicide in passing, and if you'd rather not re...

Subtitle: I've probably explained all this already but money has such an effect on our world that I feel compelled to get my thoughts d...