When I was 19, I met someone I knew only for a few months. We weren’t especially close. But we spoke about the most obscure things: About what it would be like if everyone had 3 hands, what if everyone in the world spoke the same language. You get the idea. In these conversations, I realised that they saw the world differently from me. Not dramatically different, but enough to wonder. There were two huge realisations in retrospect It was unsettling because I couldn’t agree wi

A useful rule of thumb. Not every question deserves an answer. Not every invitation to explain is made in good faith. Some are simply traps disguised as curiosity. Some people aren’t confused. They’re invested. Invested in missing the point.Invested in circling the same argument until you’re tired enough to surrender.Invested in turning explanation into a tax you keep paying. They don’t want clarity.They want leverage.They want you busy proving what they’ve already decided to