Has been interesting to watch this reverse over the years:

1995: You’re on the internet and talk to people there? And even meet them sometimes? You’re some kind of bad and evil weirdo!

Now: You’re not on the internet and don’t meet people from the internet? You’re some kind of bad and evil weirdo!

Something you realize after living on the planet for a while is that people truly are herd animals and have very little (with rare exception) reflective capacity and don’t really consider anything deeply. When I was young, I thought that most people were more like me than turned out to be true. Most people, though, just go where their friends go and do what their friends do and very little else. That explains phenomena like Nazism and cults more than any other single factor.

Related:

Popular myths about sleep, debunked.

For many people — including me — most of these myth debunkings are in fact myths themselves. Not everyone is the same and nearly none of this applies to me.

For instance, if I can’t fall asleep in five minutes I get up because I know I never will.

How do end users have this kind of time?

I am in this post and I do not like it.

And I have often wondered the same damn thing myself. One of the reasons I believe David Graeber was mostly correct about “bullshit jobs” and their pervasiveness is that I’ve frequently had to deal with users who at most — at very most — do maybe 15 minutes of actual work a week.

The first ten on today’s playlist: