March 29, 2026it’s always something, right?
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For the last few months I’ve been spending my free time getting our house ready to sell. It’s been hard but rewarding watching it transform. Mostly little things we’ve been meaning to do, plus a few bigger items needed before listing—cleaning baseboards, recaulking, new flooring, fresh paint. The house is shimmering now, even more than when we bought it.
Our house has been mostly trouble-free since we bought it in 2017. Regular maintenance with the occasional leak or fix—nothing we couldn’t handle. We’ve stayed on top of everything.
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March 3, 2026 being wrong is central to my worldview
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When you live your life based on evidence, your natural inclination is to dismantle and test your assumptions. People who live their lives based on evidence, rather than faith, welcome being wrong.
When you’re presented with new information that challenges your understanding of the world, but choose not to consider it and adjust your understanding, then you’re living in cognitive dissonance. You’re making a choice to remain comfortable rather than embracing truth.
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February 18, 2026 here’s some fun science for the day
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Your brain is telling you who you are as a person. What you like and don’t like, how you respond to situations, which then dictates how you feel about things. When you have a brain injury, your brain might change in ways that tell you different things now. You might have different interests, different temperaments, different reactions to outside stimulus.
You, and what you perceive during your roughly 85 years of life, are an imagination by a piece of meat in a helmet.
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September 23, 2025 eternity is scary
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I remember sitting in church as a little boy, maybe 6 years old. Without fail, nearly every sermon would end with a mention of eternity, the threat of hell, and the call to spend it in heaven with God [1]. And without fail I would feel dread building up to the end, hoping he wouldn’t talk about eternity again.
we aren’t compatible with eternity
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I remember being very afraid of the idea of eternity. Everything in life has a beginning and an end. You push the power button on the Nintendo, the game starts. You push the power button again, it stops. The idea of something going on forever and ever is unnatural and unfounded in reality. It profoundly scared me.
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