Regular Reveries 20: The Overreaction Paradox
I've stopped drinking coffee last Friday and replaced it with matcha, just to see what will happen. Well, headaches happened! But they are already gone, and I quickly fall asleep now and am calmer. Feels similar to a Twitter detox, which, in my case, ends tomorrow.
This week's article
I've written an article about the experience of my bike getting stolen. That has put me on a search for the proper term for that kind of a mistake. My notes proved to be more valuable than Google when searching for this.
Content candy
I'm currently reading David Deutsch's "The Beginning of Infinity", and it's really interesting. Here's one of the best highlights from it so far:
"We happened to get round to testing Newton's laws in the seventeenth century, and Einstein's in the twentieth, but the evidence with which we did that – light from the sky – had been deluging the surface of the Earth for billions of years before that, and will continue to do so for billions more."
Something to think about
"Connections don't mean shit," says record producer Steve Albini. "I've never had any connections that weren't a natural outgrowth of doing things I was doing anyway." Albini laments how many people waste time and energy trying to make connections instead of getting good at what they do, when "being good at things is the only thing that earns you clout or connections."
Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!
Question for you
Do you have restrictions on social media usage?