Oxford: being oneself over time

Now I’m in Oxford, England. Discussing the weather makes me self-conscious, but failing to do so might leave you with entirely the wrong picture. The skies are mostly perfectly blue, apparently starting at some point in the middle of the night. If I wake up at 6:45am, I can…

Packing up

This week I am moving all of my things out of S’s house and my other recent home, EH, into a storage unit. Then having achieved Bay Arean homelessness, I am going to Europe. First I’ll visit FHI and other nice things in Oxford. Then I’ll cruise around the Norwegian Fjords with S. Then I’ll meet up with my…

Selections from the trip so far

This is a travel blog and I have OCD, so I wanted to start it at the start of the travel, but I am…

Hanging out cycle

Not the rarest way for hanging out to proceed:

Step 1: I like Bob.

Step 2: Bob wants to hang out. Inference: Bob likes me!

Step 3: Happiness

Oxford: forecasting broadcast

Today I went on the 80k podcast. For some reason Rob was set on talking about AI forecasting, rather than speculative theories of human social interaction or weird things that happened in my childhood. So I was nervous about it.

Office Work

23 April 2018

Today I spent more than nine hours ‘at work’, though this was largely thanks to the innovation of distinguishing ‘at work time’ from time spent literally working. And especially from time spent literally productively working, on work.

Genetics

I did 23andMe. The most surprising things were that I am 10% ‘French and German’, and that I am genetically predisposed to be unusually slender. I thought I was English, Irish and Scandinavian, which is otherwise about right.