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Since the world is flawed, perfectionists tend to be depressed. Depression lowers self-esteem, but in many personalities, it does not eliminate pride, which is as good an engine for the fight as any I know.
“The grave is without egg.”
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“A p-value describes the probability of getting data at least as extreme as those observed, if the null hypothesis were true.”
― Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
― Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
“It all makes perfect sense if you start from Nietzsche’s initial premise. The problem is that the premise is insane.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“There is nothing so beautiful and legitimate as to play the man well and properly, no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally; and the most barbarous of our maladies is to despise our being.”
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
“Cohen suggests a test for unclarity: If you can negate a sentence and its meaning doesn’t change, it’s bullshit. “Shakespeare’s Prospero is ultimately the fulcrum of an epistemic tragedy, precisely because of his failure to embrace the hermeneutics of the transfinite.”
― Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
― Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
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