Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 8

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.

All Right, Where Was I? (2025 Edition)

New year, new agenda. Time to get back to work.

Lively (And Deadly) Discourse

On giving students not just freedom of speech, but freedom of truth.