via: this bullshit.
Few months ago, I was talking to [BEEP] on the phone. We were going back and forth about if I should move to FL or not. (He was pro, I was con.)
He had a trusty Magic 8 Ball, and he said “Hey! I’ll ask the Magic 8 Ball what it thinks!”
So he broke out his Magic 8 Ball and asked: “Magic 8 Ball, should Rasa move to Florida?” He shook the Magic 8 Ball. “Signs point to yes.” I made him ask the Magic 8 Ball if he should move to RI, so he asked “Magic 8 Ball, should I move to RI?” “Outlook not so good.”
Of course, this was proof enough for him that I should move there, but being a student of Science, I made him repeat the experiment. He asked the Magic 8 Ball at least four or five times, both questions, and the answer was the same, every time.
He got scared and put the Magic 8 Ball in the other room under the couch cushion.
And that, my friends, is my very own Magic 8 Ball story.
You will have to learn how to manage doubt by deducing beneficial uncertainty from self-abuse.
This is totally a thing.
(Source: weeklydispatch)
1The list of design flaws in human beings is pretty long, as it is in other organisms, and so to think that somehow we’re at the summit of perfection and that we’re stable is to have the wrong idea of human nature. The misleading assumption is that if we don’t interfere, we’re going to continue the way we are, and of course that goes completely contrary to everything we know about evolution. In fact it might turn out that the only way to prevent us from going extinct, or to prevent some great worsening of our condition, is to enhance some of our capacities.
Allen Buchanan
(Source: The Atlantic)
Lunchtime inspiration: Just watched this with a few designers — on how and why we shape the world around us, and how it shapes us in turn.
— Claire
Allen—I haven’t listened to this in its entirety yet but it seems like something you’d be interested in :]
Yes! Super inspiring. Wilson Miner rules.
Steal from the best. If you can’t think of a character for a story, think of Cary Grant and think of what Cary Grant would do. I mean, nobody’s going to know it.
Kurt Vonnegut, quoted in the excellent And So It Goes (via austinkleon)
