#myself

Easier To Be Good

I do not consider myself a good person. I am lazy and frivolous and inconsiderate, I care too much about intelligence and status, I am a snob and a hypocrite, and I do not call my mother enough. I don't mean this to read as self-hatred, nor a show of false modesty. Among all the people I know there is only a scant handful of people I would consider genuinely good, and so it is unremarkable to me that I wouldn't find myself amongst their number. You do not need to be good to desire more goodness in the world. It is good for everyone when things are good, and when there is more of it — more thou

LessWrong · EN

I find myself confused about empathy

Inspired by https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xPrL2xF9iYWpPmu6B/my-empathy-is-rarely-kind I find myself confused about empathy. I wrote this to try and deconfuse myself. Let's take the example case of "posting bad political takes on the internet." When I see someone doing this, it bothers me. But then I remind myself of times that I've posted stuff that I later thought was bad. This establishes a certain baseline of empathy. But then I hit a problem: when I think back on those times, I feel shame. So though I get it, it basically justifies me feeling negative things towards them. If I feel negat

LessWrong · EN

An ode to plaintext

I consider myself a simple boring guy, I like ed, I enjoy eating plain pasta, I wear only a few clothes in rotation, and my favourite way of writing and reading text is plaintext. There is something appealing about .txt files for me, it's only characters that all look mostly the same, none are bold, none are bigger, none have a background. Plaintext works everywhere, every computer can render it, it's fast, it's quiet, it's most likely futureproof, it's portable, I love it. If I could, I would have everything written in plaintext. It's limitations make it predictable. It doesn't have links or

Kagi Small Web · EN

Me, Myself and Mary

Chris O'Dowd and Aisling Bea star in the true story of an inattentive student who gets his days confused and ends up alone with the President of Ireland whilst…

Vimeo Staff Picks · EN