The 5 myths that make us quit before we get good:

That’s why experts don’t just repeat what they know — they constantly experiment at the edge of their abilities. Instead of grinding through repetition, they treat every practice session like a mini-laboratory.

You don't even need to master anything to experiment, Deity knows I never cook anything the same way twice, and cooking is most definitely not something I'm great at.

I get the feeling this is good for perfectionists who are yet to internalise that striving for small improvements takes you further along the road to perfection (but let's pretend that that destination is always achievable).

Stop posting AI slop 🛑:

AI slop comes from people giving up agency, then publishing anyway.

The thing is meant to help, not do it for you.

Nigel Farage ‘tricked into paying tribute to Ian Watkins’:

"If he is prepared to lie for relatively paltry sums, what is he prepared to do for larger amounts?"

Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero:

The most common tactics for misleading people about net-zero include: focusing on the cost of action without mentioning the cost of business-as-usual; mentioning the costs of cutting emissions but not the benefits; and omitting the costs of failing to tackle dangerous climate change.

Apropos of nothing, my grandfather could be a mean, vindictive SOB, but knew how to behave when he had to. Once the dementia kicked in, he continued to be a mean SOB but no longer had any restraint.

Sound familiar?