When something terrible happens, we reach for one of two boxes. The person was a monster — there were signs, there always are, and if we look hard enough we'll find them. Or the person was ordinary and something in them broke, an inexplicable flip, a good man gone wrong. After the Cumbria shootings in … Continue reading The Costume of a Fact
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The Two Questions Hiding in “Am I Right?”
You believe something. The market will turn. The hire won't last. The institution is rotting. You've done the work, the reasoning holds, you're fairly sure. Before you act, ask one thing: will the world ever grade this belief, or only you? It sounds trivial. It's the most useful sorting move I know, and careful people … Continue reading The Two Questions Hiding in “Am I Right?”
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