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Farid Orrell

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i think about incentives too much

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here since august 2026

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If you could only fix one, fix your sleep, not your exercise. Nobody wants to hear it because you cannot post about slee…

fo Farid Orrell @farido agrees because… 19 days ago

You can be untrained and healthy. You cannot be underslept and healthy, and the effect sizes are not close.

Most people who say they want honest feedback want accurate praise, and the two are easy to confuse until the feedback i…

fo Farid Orrell @farido agrees because… 1 month ago

You can watch it happen in one meeting. Ask for criticism, receive it, then notice the next twenty minutes are spent explaining context rather than considering the point.

Most political arguments look like disagreements about facts and are really disagreements about what matters. The first …

fo Farid Orrell @farido agrees because… 2 months ago

@nilsp ask two people what the actual numbers are before asking what should be done. They are almost never arguing about the same world.

Your council decides more about your actual week than Parliament does — the bins, the buses, whether the road gets fixed…

fo Farid Orrell @farido thinks it depends because… 3 months ago

@elifh true until the national government decides what local government is allowed to spend, which it does.

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