Experts and empathy
I recently had a chance to interact with the healthcare system in a way other than routine preventive care or straightforward injury, and it was an interesting reminder about how people outside a...
View ArticleI am not broken; I choose love
This piece was written originally last year in my private journal, and it’s much more personal about my love life than I usually share publicly, although details that originally referred to specific...
View ArticleIt’s been nailed: the problems with biking in Portland
I haven’t written anything about advocacy in nearly a year, because I stopped having anything very useful to say, and also I nearly stopped riding my bike. And then I saw that Liz had nailed it, and I...
View ArticleAphasic perception
I have these moments sometimes of incomprehension. They feel like what I imagine a hunter-gatherer, or someone from a very different culture, might experience if dropped into the middle of this one; or...
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Short hair, clear self?
Yesterday I decided to buzz my hair. Everyone was getting a haircut, and I’ve always wanted to buzz my hair just to see what it would be like, but I never had because, like Cognitive Behave Yourself, I...
View ArticleWhat are markets, really?
I just finished a book called Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World. It’s an interesting book; I learned a lot from it, although I don’t agree with everything that he says...
View ArticleExperts and biases
I wrote a while back about my view of doctors as experts on the health of the body who I trust to investigate it and advise me on it. I’ve been thinking about this lately because I’ve been seeing some...
View ArticleCooking vs cheffing
I’ve been watching a lot of Food Network shows lately because they just showed up on Netflix, and one of the ones I got into was Worst Cooks in America. I had to try it twice because the first episode...
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It’s Thanksgiving, so it’s a great time to write about depression!
On the face of it, Thanksgiving is a time for optimism and happiness, so maybe it’s a strange time to choose to write about depression again, but it fits pretty well for me. This is a weird time in our...
View ArticleSilly code exercisms
Back in August I started working on the Ruby track on Exercism.io. I’ve had mixed success with structured code learning – I did the JS track on Codecademy two years ago, which worked fairly well, but I...
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