The three lenses of opportunity cost: (1) Compared with what? (2) And then what? (3) At the expense of what? — Shane Parish
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Nice Bake 
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Pearl Harbor Day The attack on Pearl Harbor came 84 years ago today. We remember those who died that day.
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The Spotify thing My most played albums in 2025. A pretty typical assortment, I guess.
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Mom This little girl would’ve been 102 years old today.
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RIP, Tom Stoppard Stoppard was the author of the greatest (imo) English-language play of the last 50 years, “Arcadia,” and in “Leopoldstadt,” his last play, one of the most wrenching last scenes in the theater.
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Grateful for Scarry Happy Thanksgiving!
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Two Hundred Twenty-one (plus) Memorable (to me) Movies An up-to-date list from one of my first micro.blog posts.
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Taboos We live in a world where violating taboos is monetizable and confers enviable status. I like taboos— not all of them, of course. But I respect the role of taboos in society. Good taboos are the guardians of settled questions. They sit like gargoyles at the mouth of dangerous caves and warn against spelunking in dark and dangerous places. …
The riot of taboo-violating and dogma-disinterring is an invitation to consequences few have the courage or the basic knowledge to apprehend.
If … you conjure a world where there is no external truth, only a riot of competing, equally valid perspectives, then you create a Nietzschean world where the only arbiter of “truth” is the one with the will and the power to impose their truth on everyone else.