daniel kahneman: overconfidence is about lack of imagination

… when you look globally at people’s actions, overconfidence is endemic. I mean we have too much confidence in our beliefs, and overconfidence really is associated with a failure of imagination. When you cannot imagine an alternative to your belief, you are convinced that your belief is true. That’s overconfidence. — daniel kahneman

collaborative sci-fi generator experiment: a journey to heal my flesh and blood

preface: this is my short piece, written for the collaborative sci-fi generator experiment (colab radio blog post coming… some day) i hosted in colab on 16 nov 2017. the experiment was an adaptation of adrienne maree brown’s detroit sci-fi generator.

academia is wrong because it is in wrong relationship with the resources around it

yesterday, my critique of academia crystallized in a new way. i have had this conversation with so many people in so many ways and i almost feel foolish for not seeing it before.

hendrix: anxiety is like anti-currency

back in late september at a book club for my friend cyndi’s new book (the power manual (!!!)), hendrix berry said

trying on "meaningless slaughter remembrance week" and "meevenings"

just felt like i wanted to share two things i’ve picked up in the past few weeks from other people that i love and am trying on.