Blue Prince is kind of amazing? There’s this roguelike structure, but you’re not trying to gain anything approaching mastery over a single run: sure, you get better at choosing rooms in ways that make your individual runs last longer, but for a long time you’ll fail for reasons that are beyond your control. And there’s […]
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i don’t understand social categories
So, I was thinking that maybe I wanted to write a post talking about how we approach social categorization (e.g. what it means to be male, what it means to be Latino, etc.), but I’m realizing: I don’t actually understand that much at all? There is a ton of talk about gender these days, but […]
intermittent rewards, mental stamina, and looking out of an airplane window
When I was in grad school, I read about a book a day. These days I read about a book a week; much more than most people, of course, and it doesn’t seem all that unreasonable that that might be the right quantity of reading for me? When I made a list a few months […]
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