Comments | sub_divided: modern life (two years later)

sub_divided

modern life (two years later)

Feb 17, 2009 01:17

I am a fallen woman:

http://twitter.com/subdee

(AOL stuff I promised here ended up over there. There's not much more to the story, anyway...)

Read through Barry Schwartz' ode to limits, The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. All kinds of issues with his chapter detailing the specific ( Read more... )

books:bookblogging

Comments 15

tarigwaemir February 17 2009, 19:31:52 UTC

Ah, I like the distinction between maximizer and perfectionist. I have to habitually remind myself to expect failure from myself in order to stay happy in research. ^_^

sub_divided February 18 2009, 05:06:58 UTC

Was told by the head of an invitation-only science summer camp I attended in high school that I'd never make a good scientist because I react badly to setbacks. Was pretty crushed at the time. In retrospect that guy may have been right, but he was also a raging misogynist.

tarigwaemir February 18 2009, 05:26:03 UTC

I think that's a pretty cruel thing to say to a high school student, whether it's true or not. -_- (The raging misogynist part reminds me of the math team coach who told me to my face that girls can't do math.)

ikeda_ren February 18 2009, 00:17:05 UTC

I see you've been bitten by the Twitter bug. I'd never have enough to say for that...

sub_divided February 18 2009, 04:58:39 UTC

Life is filled with endless trivialities.

ikeda_ren February 21 2009, 05:44:36 UTC

True, that.

uminohikari February 18 2009, 02:37:00 UTC

Oh, Twitter. IT EATS PEOPLE

sub_divided February 18 2009, 04:58:02 UTC

It's soooooo easy. And I tell myself these things weren't making it to LJ anyway - I'd write them down as notes to myself, and fail to type them up as full posts.