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Category Archives: Personal Experience
WordPress Destroys Editing Process, Seeking Alternatives
WordPress had an editor that worked. They have forcibly replaced it with an editor that doesn’t. There does not seem to be a free way to switch back. Please, if anyone knows a good alternative hosting service, especially one that … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experience
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Let My People Stay Home
When the Jews left Egypt, they were in such a hurry that they did not have time for their bread to rise. When we packed up the most important things in our apartment, we were forced to leave the bread … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experience
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How Escape From Immoral Mazes
Previously in sequence and most on point: What is Success in an Immoral Maze?, How to Identify an Immoral Maze This post deals with the goal of avoiding or escaping being trapped in an immoral maze, accepting that for now we are … Continue reading
Write Down Your Process
Previously: Help Us Find Your Blog (and others) Mark Rosewater is the lead designer of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. This means he is part of Magic’s R&D department, one of the world’s few pockets of cooperation, sanity and … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook Sequence, Good Advice, Magic: The Gathering, Personal Experience, Uncategorized
Tagged Advice, Magic: The Gathering
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Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction
Epistemic Status: Minus One Million Points Shortness Status: Long (this is a proposed new norm I want to try out, in the sense of ‘apologies for writing a long letter, I did not have enough time to write a shorter … Continue reading
Posted in Death by Metrics, Economics, Personal Experience, Reviews
Tagged Analysis, Economics, Machine Learning, Personal Experience, Review
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How to Destroy Civilization
Epistemic Status: Parable. Can’t tell to what extent I am being serious but it’s not zero. I. Recently I made a huge mistake. At heart, I am a gamer. Playing games is fun and makes me happy, whereas not playing … Continue reading
Posted in Games Other Than Magic, Personal Experience, Uncategorized
Tagged Games, Personal Experience, Politics
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Meditations on Mexico City
As I begin writing this, I am on a flight back from Mexico City to New York (I finished the next morning back in the city). It has been a good one-week trip. Most of the time outside of the … Continue reading
Two Words That Offer Final Ultimate Proof That Medical System Is Evil
Music therapy. At the hospital, I have just learned, they offer Music Therapy. By music, I mean random folk singers with guitars. By therapy, I mean letting those folk singers sing, and play their guitars. And by offer, I mean … Continue reading