I love critical theory, I love seminars, I love reading groups, I love universities as public goods, I love historiography of disciplines and knowledge itself, I love difficulty and difficult questions, and I love the humanities being human. And that's the hill I die on.
At Meta you get to take "re-charge" every five years. It's effectively a 1 month sabbatical. Just took mine (after 6+ years). Best perk ever.
I was trying to think the last time I have gone 1 month without a job and I think it was summer after 6th grade. It's been some 25+ years.
I cannot overstate how good it felt.
Anyways, back to building! Tons of cool stuff in the pipeline.
Pretty sure this ad belongs on the « heteropessimism » syllabus. There are some deep chasms of loneliness, contempt and laziness indicated here that digital personal assistants can only fill in a « Pyrrhic victory » sense.
Breaking News: Ross Douthat, The New York Times opinion columnist, is joining CBS News’s “60 Minutes” in one of the first major hires since Bari Weiss’s takeover. https://t.co/JXjElDkd5u
I love how TSA rules are different at every airport and they look at you like you're a fucking idiot when you don't speak their regional dialect of security theater.
The smartphone really revolutionized the waiting room. Oh I get 20 minutes to look at my phone? Don’t mind if I do. The only problem is sometimes when I’m looking at my phone at home my home starts to feel like a waiting room and I realize it is and I’m just waiting to die