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Coin Flips, a blog that pits the predictive power of a virtual, yet obsolete, 1 Mark der DDR coin against that of expert sportswriters.
“But we Yanks have a way with unwinnable wars: we simply declare them won, go home, celebrate the victory, and live happily ever after. (We live happily ever after.)” – David Lewis (“Individuation by Acquaintance and by Stipulation”, The Philosophical Review 92:1 (1983), 17)
“…and of foolish people those who by nature are thoughtless and live by their senses alone are brutish, like some races of the distant foreigners…” – Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics VII; revised Oxford translation, 1815)
Some of this is probably obvious and internalized to my peers. I think I’ve picked up some along the way. Still, I wish someone had told me this much earlier, and I listened.
- 10 steps toward better writing [lifehack.org]
- 10 steps toward better research [lifehack.org]
Other suggestions?
