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Feb 29, 2024: Inferences The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. —Richard Feynman Sid Meier, a famous computer game …
Feb 20, 2024: Skinner's Folly …the physicist himself, who describes all this, is, in his own account, himself constructed of it. He is, in short, made of a conglomeration of the …
Feb 19, 2024: Message to gebloom.com readers I’m going to experiment with far shorter essays. I usually write short pieces and then figure out how to put the pieces together to make a longer, …
Jan 10, 2024: Hard Fun The phrase “pleasure of writing” makes me pause. At this very moment, writing is not altogether pleasurable. The ticking of the clock …
Nov 2, 2023: Communication and Its Discontents, Part 1, Coupling Despite how unappealing it would be to the average person, there’s an advantage to earning your living doing colonoscopies: other than in politics and …
Oct 13, 2023: Mastery Can I move? I’m better when I move. —The Sundance Kid Last year, my wife and I moved from Edmonds, Washington to Portland, Oregon to help with our …
Oct 13, 2023: Learning-Introduction On a flight, seated behind a teenage girl, a novelist was having a get-off-my-lawn moment. With the click sound enabled, the girl tapped away on her …
Oct 27, 2018: The Psychotherapy of Doc Martin, by Dr. Rachel Timoney (This is a form of fan fiction, intended solely for educational purposes, that combines events from the Doc Martin TV show, Season 7, with stuff I …
Nov 20, 2017: Privacy — an essential habit of democracy Bria Bloom recently posted an essay of her witnessing an interaction between a mother and the mother’s (about) ten year-old-daughter. The mother is …