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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I get that you’re being practical here. You’re not technically wrong, and the people who are disagreeing with you really are arguing points of nuance.

    But they aren’t wrong either. That nuance matters in certain contexts.

    You can pick this hill to defend. Or you can learn something that you didn’t know about the people in your online community, and probably your IRL community too.

    Embrace learning something new. It will almost never be a waste of your time.












  • I suppose it depends on how good of a writer you are.

    Some writers can say things we all know so well that it’s like we’re finally understanding it for the first time. Some writers have a knack for delivering facts or prose with the perfect dose of humor; it’s not what they say, but how they say it that is valuable.

    I suppose the question of what merits a book has is more complicated than just “does this book push the envelope of human knowledge”, huh?