The Task of Choosing What the Best Rules Are

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There shouldn't be pressure on people to just keep over populating the planet. But at the same time, it's like that didn't use to be something that occupied people's attention and deliberation. The task of choosing what the best rules are is daunting. If i i have to now decide, like, which races should be allowed to have freedom, that's daunting for me. I mean, as you say, some of those are oppressive, and so we should obviously change them. There is this freedom from knowing, i don't to worry about a whole bunch of stuff. That's what i loved about the thing about an enemy.

David and Tamler lose themselves in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s (pr. ‘chick sent me high’) classic paper on the concept of flow. We talk about the features of flow activities – loss of ego, the merging of your awareness with the activity, and autotelic (not what you think) enjoyment. What makes flow activities so rewarding? Do you need to develop skills over many years to experience them? Do easy and natural social interactions count as flow?

Plus as men of pure virtue, we call an audible and choose not to make fun of a recent paper (with a student as lead author). Instead we pilot a not fully formed idea: “Substack Starters." Now that the economy is tanking, do we have any heterodox beliefs that might lead to profitable Substacks?