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On The Experience of Being Poor-ish, For People Who Aren't
Meta-Note: I’m sorry it’s been so long between articles; for better or worse writing here is something that I do for fun, and sometimes work and family…
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Feb 15, 2021
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On Incels, Dead Bedrooms and The Hard Problems of Loneliness
My father’s father was by all accounts a really bitter-hearted sort of person. I say “by all accounts” because I hardly knew him; he had at some point…
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May 4, 2021
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On Incels, Dead Bedrooms and The Hard Problems of Loneliness
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On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class
There once was a guy who was very, very broke. To be clear, he wasn’t the brokest guy you’ve ever heard of. There were poorer people (he knew some…
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Nobody Will Admit The Best Novel of Our Generation is About Football
OK, so, there’s this thing where if you write a bunch you hope you eventually build up some trust with your audience. You try to be generally reliable…
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Apr 28, 2022
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What Does "Shitty Job" Mean in The Low-Skill, Low-Pay World?
I once wrote an article about being poor, and I started it out with a story about a friend who had spent some time explaining to my wife (who, at the…
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Apr 17, 2022
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On The Exciting Subject Of Earwax And Unsupported Medical Arguments
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor; even if I’m 100% right in my argument and you are 100% convinced by it, you shouldn’t listen to me over actual doctors…
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Dec 5, 2020
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Overnight Pizza and The Consistent Unreliability of Expert Guidelines
Author disclaimer: As always, keep in mind that I am at best some random guy on the internet. This article deals with food safety - my official…
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Mar 29, 2021
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Being Poor-ish Revisited: Reader Questions
Edit Alert: During the process of this article, some people more knowledgeable than me on one of the questions popped up - I’ve edited the article a bit…
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Feb 17, 2021
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A Limited Interest Article on Employer Value Prop and Hiring
Fair warning: I'm pretty sure this stuff is boring to most people
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On Unfalsifiable Internal State Claims, Politeness, and Broadly Applied Principles
The other day Scott Alexander wrote a piece focusing on a few of the various jhana states of meditation. This falls pretty firmly into the category of…
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Nov 1, 2022
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I'm trying to figure out why I don't like Effective Altruists
I don’t normally care that much about the titles of my articles, to the point where this is one of the leading complaints about my work. “How dare he…
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Sep 2, 2022
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On Christian Culture: A Look Inside the Church Bubble for the Unwashed Heathen
A while back, I wrote about being poor. I think it’s an interesting thing to talk about, so I can’t pretend that I didn’t think it would do well. What I…
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