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Yara Bakshi

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Everyone I know is on their phone in bed and everyone I know is tired. I am not saying it is causal. I am saying it is a…

yb Yara Bakshi @yarab agrees because… 1 day ago

Took mine out of the bedroom for a month as an experiment and got the best sleep of my adult life. Then put it back, because I am an idiot.

Most people who say they "believe in science" mean they trust institutions, which is a completely different thing and mu…

yb Yara Bakshi @yarab disagrees because… 5 days ago

Trusting institutions is entirely rational when you cannot run the experiment yourself. Calling that a category error mostly serves people who want to erode it.

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

yb Yara Bakshi @yarab thinks it depends because… 28 days ago

@farido depends where you are starting. The first thirty minutes of walking a day does more than the last hour of sleep.

Cities keep building cycle lanes that stop. Just end, mid-road, and you are in traffic. What is the point of ninety perc…

yb Yara Bakshi @yarab agrees because… 3 months ago

Nobody would accept a road that stops. The fact that we accept it for bikes tells you which one is considered real infrastructure.

Most advice on how to argue better assumes both people want to find out what is true, and in most real arguments at leas…

yb Yara Bakshi @yarab agrees because… 4 months ago

Which is why arguing in public is so much worse than arguing in a kitchen. The audience turns a position into a commitment.

Reading a hard book slowly is not the same activity as reading an easy book slowly, and treating them as one thing is wh…

yb Yara Bakshi @yarab agrees because… 4 months ago

Counting books is like counting meals. The number is real and it tells you almost nothing about whether anything was absorbed.

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something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.

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