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Essays

Come To Terms With It

June 2, 2010

“Everybody talks about reform but nobody wants to change.” Garry McCarthy, Brick City: Circus Ain’t it the truth? This is America! You have the right to do whatever the hell you want to do, provided you’re not breaking the law and you’re paying your taxes. Damn right. But that’s not because you’re you. It’s because [...]

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The Achievement Dilemma

May 19, 2010

In a 2010 TED talk, game designer Jane McGonigal remarks that “We are optimized as human beings to do hard, meaningful work.” I repeat: humans are optimized for hard, meaningful work. In fact, McGonigal points out that gamers are very likely committed so deeply to gaming because they experience a sense of “blissful productivity,” that [...]

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On Feynman and Us

April 29, 2010

Perhaps a thing is simple if you can describe it fully in several different ways without immediately knowing that you are describing the same thing. Richard Feynman, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1965 If you’ve ever listened to a Richard Feynman lecture or read his books, you’ll understand why I like to think that his greatest [...]

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Straight Talk about The Secret

February 9, 2009

I think it’s time we got real about The Secret. It’s time we sort out the differences between wishful thinking (e.g. The Secret or Law of Attraction) and outstanding personal positioning and decision-making (what Rosalene Glickman aptly calls optimal thinking in her eponymous book). It seems that the phrase ‘the secret’ has degenerated into a catchall term for feel [...]

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