Scott Kabel

Words, songs, movement, God

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@ado1024imokenp have you seen my friend's tattoo? I just found out about it. So good! Please say hi to him. 🙏 @BlitzHideri

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@GmNaroditsky maybe an interesting appendix to the pawn race video?
https://t.co/v5m8GBx7Kj

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

First time in #Wordle history? Totally different letter order between rows 3, 4, and 5.
Wordle 287 5/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@olimpiuurcan @GmNaroditsky / @GMJuditPolgar / @polborta / @ginger_gm

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@JenniferJillS @willowbirds @tyfgibson @EliseHarboldt @garyLthomas @EstherOfReilly @timkellernyc @JennMGreenberg @esaumccaulley Yes! Let's attack ideas, not people. And treat ideas as always relating to belief and behavior in complicated ways. You and I read plenty that doesn't persuade us or translate into action--in other words, could lead to harm but doesn't. Looking forward to your book.

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@JenniferJillS @willowbirds @tyfgibson @EliseHarboldt @garyLthomas @EstherOfReilly @timkellernyc @JennMGreenberg @esaumccaulley You're right that my concern is tangential, not quite free speech. I'll try this formulation: Seems ethical to disagree with ideas that happen to be in a book that happens to be written by someone. Seems less ethical to reduce a person and a book to the ideas you disagree with.

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@willowbirds @JenniferJillS @tyfgibson @EliseHarboldt @garyLthomas @EstherOfReilly @timkellernyc @JennMGreenberg @esaumccaulley I'm being picky about the language. Things need to happen for a book to be harmful: be consumed, understood, believed, acted upon... Long casual chain. Harm isn't inevitable. But cool, critique the lie. I like that framing better. Though more folks will read a book you critique.

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

I saw the royal fork from Nxe6. I was excited because I can't calculate very far yet. How do I count how many moves ahead I calculated? Was it 3?
https://t.co/eh0uk9QA4A
@agadmator @IM_Rosen @chessbrahTV @Anna_Chess @akaNemsko @GothamChess @GmNaroditsky @GMHikaru @anishgiri

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

Attention, planning, expectation. #Chess is a regular illustration of what happens with the mismanagement of these things. Get in my head, guess where my attention was focused, see what happens. Any life lessons here? @jkhoe @agadmator @GothamChess
https://t.co/7NlrlwnVJK

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@ohvimbo It would be interesting to think about how both are related to expectation management and identity work. Please rest well!

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@HeatherTDay Even though his behavior is not your fault, be aware that the way you present yourself and interact with him could set off cascades of processes he has no control over anymore. He needs help and Jesus, otherwise he is more like an animal than a person. Steer clear

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@HeatherTDay Ladies, he has trained himself literally for years to respond to seeing your form by pursuing his own pleasure. This process has become automatic. An addict, he may have lost the tools to limit his behavior. Why? He ceded his will power to meeting his intimacy needs artificially.

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

Are you sensing a call to a particular purpose? Point your boat in that direction and see if your sails catch wind. Don't wait for the wind to shift.

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@HeatherTDay I think it's healthier to think of those as conventional titles, identifiers. They function as identities as much as an individual lets them.

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@kreyne Reread recently: On Bullshit. Have you read it? I think you'd find it interesting.

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

WOTD: iatrogenic

Well-intended intervention with (unintended) negative outcome. (Medical)

- Listening to 'Antifragile', Taleb

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@StevenGrabiner Fun fact: "I have a problem" and "I have a question" are translated into the same phrase in Chinese. You could think that someone with a question is someone with a problem. But I like the other way: someone with a problem is someone with a question.

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

I don't aim to intimidate. But I do aim to impose, to take up space, and to let you feel my weight. This isn't to take a superior position, but to pursue a higher purpose. We can go there together.

[Scott Kabel @sdkabel]

@StevenGrabiner Like yesterday Scott Sauce getting approved in a chain of grocery stores in Hawaii. Didn't see that coming, but it's beautiful. 😁