Today, I will write for myself. I'll write how I want to write: long sentences and big words. Sesquipedelian. This effort is all to rediscover the power of the vernacular my parents gave me, a gift as invaluable as power itself. Language matters My mission to become more accessible to whoever might read my work [...]
Month: March 2022
The Devil’s Journal, Talking about Critical Thinking
Tuesday, March 22, 2022. 50 Minutes past 2:00 I should write a book, or many, based on my conversations with the world. I don't remember a time when I shone away from discussing anything. Especially about those issues I find essential to social well-being. And this conversation, which started with the seemingly popular idea of [...]
The Devil’s Journal, Questions and Doubts from Friends
Questions and doubts from friends
The Devil’s Journal, Saying Goodbye to Natasha
Tuesday, March 15 2022. 50 Minutes past 5:00 After several months of not writing here, I feel the need to contribute to this story due to several preoccupations. The most pressing, even if it's self-indulgent, is saying goodbye to Natasha. And then there is the lesson of the value of honesty to romantic relationships The last [...]
A Fair Warning and Call to Action to Critical Thinkers
Here and now, I must insist that you summon the full extent and force of your self-control. Because yes, I have much to say on the subject. This is a fair warning and call to action to all critical thinkers. Given that you have not thrown whatever device you read this on across your study, [...]
Acquiescence Bias
Acquiescence Bias is the human (social) propensity to portray a positive or agreeable overtone when questioned or queried (or vice versa - disagreement). Psychologists refer to it as "yah-saying" and define it as the tendency to agree with a statement when in doubt. If someone is unsure of the answer, they will often agree rather [...]
Imagination and Intellectual Honesty
An old meditation about he relationship between Imagination and Intellectual Honesty, and how Einstein's popular allegories blur the line between the two. February 27 2012 The trend amongst proponents of new-age thinking and believers of everything illogical is to hold imagination as "better" or more important than knowledge. This seems to result from the human [...]