The statements that make people maddest are the ones they worry might be true.
Outrage at an idea is a tell. Loudness scales with private doubt—any thesis that survives a room's heat is worth a second read.
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The great English playwright and social philosopher George Bernard Shaw once remarked that all professions are conspiracies against the common folk. He meant that those who belong to elite trades - physicians, lawyers, teachers, and scientists - protect their special status by creating vocabularies that are incomprehensible to the general public.
The Mexican embrace of uncertainty, forged in the crucible of history, captures a truer vulnerability of human existence than Western certitudes offer.
Robin SloanRobin Sloan announces a winter pop-up newsletter called Winter Garden, drawing on Craig Mod's editorial model and his own experiments with seasonal, single-topic publishing.