Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 7

In Defense Of The Quaint And The Amateurish

Or: Why can't a book just be a book for the people who just want a book?��

Neil-hism

Attempting to say something about the Neil Gaiman situation.

You've Got Brains, Yes You Have

I don't mind not being the smartest person in the room, but too many other people don't seem to be easy with it. Even the so-called smart ones.

The Choke

"Our teaching is too full��of words, and they come too soon."

You Were A Weird One, Mr. Lynch

But that was why you mattered.

One Dimensional Men

A possible idea for a political spectrum index: how strongly people are avoidant of social complexity.

Parallel Plundering

On studying things to get parallel lessons from them for apparently unrelated fields.

SE7EN

Three possible responses to living in a fallen world: you can lament and hope for better, you can shrug and get by, or you can lash out.

Why I Hate Chess, Pt. 217

What I actually hate is my own incompetence with chess, and all that implies.

The (Un)Real Thing

Welcome to the two halves of my brain, the physics side and the Zen side.