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Why Merit Isn’t Enough
Epistemic status: informed speculation I. I played the trombone for 11 years. If you ask trombone players who the best trombone player in the world is, everyone says Joe Alessi. He’s the only professional trombone player most non-professional trombone players can name (aside from perhaps Trombone Shorty and Christopher Bill). [1] Why the consensus? Is…
Frontal Lobes
A friend once showed me a Tweet that said, “It would be nice if there was a ding that told you when your frontal lobes finished developing.” My layman’s understanding of the frontal lobe is that its development increases your maturity. [1][2] I’ve heard various estimates of when your frontal lobes finish developing, ranging from…
Be Bored
When was the last time you did nothing for 30 minutes? Probably pre-2010, right? This is killing us. Technology is only going to get more addictive as time moves on. Less addictive technologies, by definition, will be adopted to a lesser extent than the more addictive ones. And the more hits of dopamine an app…
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