The time is now. It's running out.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined October 2007
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NYC lottery system for high school is a valiant attempt to inject more equity into the system. What it also does is make a certain type of parent feel like if they’re child doesn’t get into a top school it is somehow their fault.
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Hello to all my soon to be ex followers. This account isn’t really about NYC student commute times, but maybe it should be.
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Is my most popular tweet ever gonna be an off hand comment on school commute times?
Someone should write an article on high school kids in NYC and their insane commutes. I've spoken to kids commuting two hours both ways everyday. One kid at the Tech open house told me he comes to Brooklyn from "past Flushing". Mind blowing.
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I think unusually productive friendships and deep, long-lasting creative partnerships are under-theorized. I’d really like to better understand the alchemy that produces a Warren/Charlie, Jobs/Wozniak, Caro/Gottlieb, Will/Ariel Durant, and so on.
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Teens are back!
U.S. teens saw notable declines in self-reported sadness and suicidal ideation from 2021 to 2025.
Relative to 2021, they were also more likely in 2025 to:
1) play sports (49% to 58%)
2) do strength training (45% to 51%)
2) eat fruit >=twice/day (19% to 28%)
3) eat at least one vegetable/day (55% to 63%)
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I will never tire of stressing just how philosophically rich science fiction is as a genre. It truly is—in a description commonly attributed to Pamela Sargent, but also found in Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Gene Wolfe among others—“the literature of ideas.”
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My letter in today's @NYTimes boils down to:
Maybe what kids really need is not more $ for mental health interventions but more independence and free play.
At least try that FIRST.
nytimes.com/2026/11/07/opini…
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U.S. teens saw notable declines in self-reported sadness and suicidal ideation from 2021 to 2025.
Relative to 2021, they were also more likely in 2025 to:
1) play sports (49% to 58%)
2) do strength training (45% to 51%)
2) eat fruit >=twice/day (19% to 28%)
3) eat at least one vegetable/day (55% to 63%)
I think about this quote all the time:
"There is always time to do more, most people, even the productive, have a day that is at least forty percent slack." - @tylercowen
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reminding everyone that Mississippi is one of the best states in the country at teaching kids to read and the rest of us should be taking notes
Because we live in NYC we are doing the most insane high school tour circuit and every single school touts how many APs they offer and how many kids take them. My wife was suspicious, turns out that as usual, she was right.
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This feels like a truly generational vibe shift in politics – a swing so large and enduring it won't be reversed for at least 6 months.
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I feel like people don’t think critically about how a couple dozen weird nerds posting on Less Wrong in the 2000’s accumulated power and influence at a rate ~ on par with the rise of Islam under Muhammad.
Analytical thinking is very powerful!
About to finish "Raven", the definitive book about Jim Jones. It's remarkable. I thought I knew this story, but I didn't. The support he received from politicians and activists, even late in the day, when shit was clearly getting dark in Guyana, is shocking.
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Like, this is a quote from Angela Davis when Jones was in Guyana:
I know you are in a very difficult situation right now and there is a conspiracy. A very profound conspiracy designed to destroy the contributions which you have made to our struggle. And this is why I must tell you that we feel that we are under attack as well. When you are attacked, it is because of your progressive stand, and we feel that it is directly an attack against us as well.
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