my longform writing is on https://alfredmacdonald.substack.com this is a place for my casual and essentially unthorough writing I am best described as a falsehood/bullshit minimalist, not an honesty maximalist. I’ve explained why in this post: tinyurl.com/whatimeanbyfalsehoodminimalism

this writing is so bad that it is inspirational, i.e. my day has actually been improved by reading it: “I feel a pretty deep (as in, I know the principles of how the math is done and can rotate this in my brain from different angles) intuitive grasp of stuff…

(this is not comprehensive) longform writing: http://alfredmacdonald.substack.com casual writing and useful lists: http://alfredmacdonald.medium.com (you are here) (2015-present) a compilation of the best fitness links on the internet https://alfredmacdonald.substack.com/p/a-compilation-of-the-best-fitness EGEG (2015-present) things that puff my jigglies, master list https://alfredmacdonald.substack.com/p/things-that-puff-my-jigglies-master (mirror: http://simp.ly/p/DPwmw3) EGEG

fb (I am most likely to respond to this): http://facebook.com/1441668545/ youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2ntbv_goUboXrbClAj5dGQ/ longform writing: http://alfredmacdonald.substack.com casual writing and useful lists: http://alfredmacdonald.medium.com directory of writings: https://app.simplenote.com/p/fCShc3 and https://alfredmacdonald.medium.com/a-directory-of-my-writing-38b11fccbd8d instagram (I am medium-likely to respond to this): http://www.instagram.com/elfcounselor/

NOTE: this is an EGEG, so it will always be updated and never “done”. speaking of which: ▪️ EGEG: evergreen+evergrowing — ideally continually relevant and probably never complete. I don’t provide changelogs. if you care about this use an archive or screenshot ▪️ SayTheLining — “One thing,” if your brain…

something-in-the-waterism is the belief that what you’re lacking is a secret sauce from not moving to the right city and not being part of some special group that will make you a phenom. people who think this way almost always need to work on themselves way more than they need…

note: I cannot avoid the author saying that this post itself is a “status game”, or that any criticism of this reasoning is a status game. when your theory explains everything, it explains nothing.

plato had a lot of silly ideas, but the gist of focusing on universals or somewhat permanent ideas is the correct one. (advertisers, dumb as they tend to be, have made the term "evergreen" to refer to almost exactly the same thing.) when your thoughts are so obviously just constrained…

I often struggle to get others to believe that there was a period where the bemani-centric rhythm game scene circulated revenge porn of me that was also legally considered child pornography, and did so with amusement and not any concern that their behavior was harmful, despite that much of this…