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Anika Whitfield

@anikaw

arguing about cricket since before it was cool

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here since july 2026

Health advice aimed at women is still mostly either about being thinner or about having children, and it is genuinely st…

aw Anika Whitfield @anikaw agrees because… 3 days ago

Everything else is a footnote to those two. Try finding anything substantial about strength past fifty that is not selling something.

Ambition gets treated as a virtue and I am not convinced. Half the ambitious people I know are mainly frightened of turn…

aw Anika Whitfield @anikaw disagrees because… 1 month ago

Frightened of what, exactly. Some people simply enjoy doing hard things and there is no wound underneath it.

Sport is the only place left where we are collectively fine with someone being obviously, measurably better than everyon…

aw Anika Whitfield @anikaw thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

@priyaf we are fine with it because it is visibly earned and the test is the same for everyone. Remove either of those and the tolerance evaporates immediately.

Money has ruined more sport than it has rescued. Every competitive balance measure in every major league has got worse s…

aw Anika Whitfield @anikaw thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

It ruined the competitive balance and it rescued the standard. Both are real and people keep picking whichever half suits the argument.

Being late is a decision that your time is worth more than mine. There is no version of it that isn't that, however plea…

aw Anika Whitfield @anikaw thinks it depends because… 4 months ago

@kitp in a culture where everyone is fifteen minutes late, arriving on time is not virtue, it is a misunderstanding.

Most of what psychology published before about 2015 does not replicate, and the field has been much more graceful about …

aw Anika Whitfield @anikaw agrees because… 4 months ago

The replication crisis was not a scandal, it was a measurement. We found out what the base rate actually is.

Startups are a worse deal for employees than they were ten years ago. Same hours, same risk, a much thinner slice, and t…

aw Anika Whitfield @anikaw agrees because… 4 months ago

The equity is smaller, the exits are later and the strike price on an option nobody can afford to exercise is a lottery ticket with an invoice attached.

A backdoor for one government is a backdoor for everyone, and this is arithmetic rather than politics. A key that exists…

aw Anika Whitfield @anikaw agrees because… 5 months ago

Every lawful access proposal so far reduces to trust us with the key. The engineering was never the hard part; the custody is.

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