Lots of good stuff here, but especially this -- people have very different reactions to high uncertainty. Some of the academic work on risks picks out varying 'archetypes' -- in the absence… (View Post)

This sounds like the script for an Alex cartoon... (View Post)

I've often thought that it's unfortunate that modern society doesn't offer many options for living not-alone: there's "find a romantic partner and live with them", share… (View Post)

I agree that some of the online shift will unwind, where people were forced into it and didn't much like it. But some of it will stay, where people were forced into trying it and found that for … (View Post)

Great stuff. (I live about 50m outside the eastern boundary of your square...) One of the handful of good decisions I made back in the first lockdown of 2020 was that I was not getting enough exercis… (View Post)