porcheetoh

I have this heuristic I use to determine whether someone is worth listening to, or whether I should ignore them. Look, it rejects Bill Gates! I’m very smart.

Look, everyone uses heuristics to assess the world. Turns out yours is somewhat broken. Might want to update it.

Every time something goes wrong with my watch I have to fully unpair and reset it. Every time! It’s very frustrating.

But when everything is working, I find it to be super useful… so what are you going to do?

This 100%. I try to cultivate friendships with people whose mental model of themselves and their friendships with me would require that they treat a loan seriously (even if, in the end, they couldn’t pay it back).

With such a friend, whether to loan money is an easy question to answer: yes, as long as I can afford to.

With anyone else I figure I’m not a bank (or a loan shark), so I shouldn’t get into a bank’s business.

Money and intention I think. There’s plenty of money, but it must be paired with the intention to use it in such a way. This is what is rare.

Not. With ridiculous rationalization: “we fucked up, but if we admit it, the trolls win”.

> There's no reason to think he's guilty, apart from blind trust in the police's word.

In my experience there’s a very deeply ingrained sense that police are the good guys lingering in average suburban Americans of a certain age. (I’m sure in others too that’s just my background.) It’s really hard to discuss these kinds of topics with someone that by default accepts that police action implies necessity.

Businesses fail all the time. Very often because the founders are inexperienced and underestimate just how much knowledge and skill it takes to run something seemingly simple. This is not unusual, it should not “physically hurt” to read. There but for the grace of god etc.

The hyperbole and disdain is unappealing.