#Failure

1/ Why you need to document things to improve your decision-making, a thread:"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."~Richard
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So quite randomly, I'm going to talk today about Nechronica, a Japanese TRPG about zombie girls in a world that has ended. It's made by Ryo Kamiya, who you may
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Sorry to say I'm here with some hard reality checks for people already planning their post-vaccine summer (and sorry to say even fall/winter.)But first we need to talk about herd
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“Every new disease outbreak presents new challenges but from a logistics perspective, #covid19 has been one of the toughest challenges we’ve ever faced ”, says @drtedros at @WHO presser on
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Ok I've promised a thread on gaslighting in academia so here it is. Gaslighting, for those who don't know, is an abuse tactic which makes the victim doubt their own
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Today's u-turn on vouchers for #FreeSchoolMeals by @10DowningStreet and @educationgovuk is not without consequence. At the end of two weeks of last minute decision making on education, the upshot is
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In a hearing set to begin momentarily, Judge Sullivan plans to question "the apparent lack of compliance" by USPS with his order to sweep postal facilities on Election Day to
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Thread: I read this piece in Jacobin. Its really sloppy in key parts of it. It seems to rely on an implication that the EHRC are not impartial without any
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Why aren’t we talking more about #FarmProtests ? My take - @rihanna @GretaThunberg @miakhalifa and others ... The farm laws which are scrapped are 1. Freedom to sell to anyone
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My political views (my opinion!), a thread:(I'm more right leaning than left, however do not consider myself a conservative, as you can see, lots of my views are at odds
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Imagine going about your life, when a virus develops into a pandemic. Suddenly the rulers of your country are like "We're going to let the virus infect us, don't listen
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Excellent thread by @JoMicheII explaining core Keynesian dogma via Joan Robinson. This idea is important and worth understanding. However, the follow-up critique of competing dogma seems invalid (and unnecessary) to
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Maybe the United States has more cases of COVID-19 than anywhere else on the entire planet because we refuse to learn from places like China and Vietnam where stopping the
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It's funny to see people saying that a battle between retail investors and hedge funds doesn't matter because it's all the same when those same people say the battle between
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In his latest blog post, @guzdial makes a strong and appealing argument that one can't possibly disagree with. As so often happens with his blog, I have a counter-example. Usually
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Systems research is hard and time consuming. Let's talk about that using this bug in Twizzler that I just squashed as an example.It can be hard to make “research progress"
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