> Economist George Stigler famously said “If you never missed a plane, you’re spending too much time in airports.”
You say that, but then the one time you miss your flight the time you have to spend at the airport waiting for new flights/layovers outweighs all the time you saved not getting their early. Plus the 12th consecutive hour at an airport is weighted a lot more then the 1st one, imo. I just had to deal with this myself 😅
I love your writing. (I subscribed to Singal-Minded solely because you occasionally wrote there.) I think your experiences give you an interesting perspective, and you are far more fair-minded than most. To me, exhaustive research is not what makes your posts great. For example, "Defunding My Mistake" was an excellent essay, but not because it was a perfect summary of the Defund movement and its challenges or because you fully explored every possible avenue where you could be wrong. If you missed something, a reader can point it out, and if they are just pointing it out as a way to dismiss everything else you wrote then they are not the kind of reader you should care about.
> and if they are just pointing it out as a way to dismiss everything else you wrote then they are not the kind of reader you should care about.
Exactly right. One of the things I'm intentionally working on is significantly lowering my tolerance for sophistry and dishonesty. I used to be much more optimistic about the possibility of winning people over with charm and patience. While that still will be my default approach, if someone doesn't respond positively on the first round of it, they're highly unlikely to change their mind after the 10th.
> Economist George Stigler famously said “If you never missed a plane, you’re spending too much time in airports.”
You say that, but then the one time you miss your flight the time you have to spend at the airport waiting for new flights/layovers outweighs all the time you saved not getting their early. Plus the 12th consecutive hour at an airport is weighted a lot more then the 1st one, imo. I just had to deal with this myself 😅
Welcome. Worry less. Write more. And if you're occasionally wrong or less than comprehensive, so what?
I'm working on burying my hangups!
I love your writing. (I subscribed to Singal-Minded solely because you occasionally wrote there.) I think your experiences give you an interesting perspective, and you are far more fair-minded than most. To me, exhaustive research is not what makes your posts great. For example, "Defunding My Mistake" was an excellent essay, but not because it was a perfect summary of the Defund movement and its challenges or because you fully explored every possible avenue where you could be wrong. If you missed something, a reader can point it out, and if they are just pointing it out as a way to dismiss everything else you wrote then they are not the kind of reader you should care about.
> and if they are just pointing it out as a way to dismiss everything else you wrote then they are not the kind of reader you should care about.
Exactly right. One of the things I'm intentionally working on is significantly lowering my tolerance for sophistry and dishonesty. I used to be much more optimistic about the possibility of winning people over with charm and patience. While that still will be my default approach, if someone doesn't respond positively on the first round of it, they're highly unlikely to change their mind after the 10th.
This reverberated way too much for me.
Which means I may return to it in the hope that it will provide yet one more gentle corrective to my own mishegoss. (1)
Of course, each of these wise reminders never provides more than a small brief push, but all of them together... 🙏
(1) https://jel.jewish-languages.org/words/382
Please tell me that misspelling "things" in the title was intentional.
👀 > "I’m also going to raise my tolerance for (occasionally) being wrong, or misspelling a post title."