Michael Descy

Thoughts

• Jan 26, 2023
• Chess is just poker now Sep 20, 2022
• Sep 15, 2022
• Jul 28, 2022
• Jul 27, 2022
• Everything takes longer to do than I expect Jul 12, 2022
• Dependence Day Jul 4, 2022
• Annual Reviews Are a Terrible Way to Evaluate Employees Apr 30, 2022
• All billionaires are oligarchs Apr 27, 2022
• When I used Mac OS 8 Apr 26, 2022
• Apr 24, 2022
• A hastily built presentation is better than nothing Apr 19, 2022
• Chateau Picard Apr 15, 2022
• Be excellent to each other Apr 14, 2022
• Apr 9, 2022
• Apr 8, 2022
• The reward for doing good work Apr 5, 2022
• Apr 3, 2022
• Try telling Memento Mori to a five-year-old Mar 29, 2022
• Mar 26, 2022
• Is increased productivity worth the increase in stress? Mar 21, 2022
• All I know is that I don’t want to create a paper maché volcano Mar 15, 2022
• Mar 7, 2022
• Advice for giving effective presentations Mar 3, 2022
• 🇺🇦 I stand with Ukraine and my heart breaks for them Mar 2, 2022
• Sentence outlines, or How I accidentally learned to write a long thesis project essay Mar 2, 2022
• Priorities Feb 28, 2022
• The Poet Feb 24, 2022
• Feb 16, 2022
• The Thin Veneer of Modernity Feb 15, 2022
• The Tower of Babel Feb 14, 2022
• Everybody wishes to be seen and heard Feb 6, 2022
• Memory selects the wrong things Feb 4, 2022
• Strong punctuation preferences Feb 3, 2022
• The Writing Life Jan 23, 2022
• On having nothing to say Jan 22, 2022
• How Old is Your Brain? Jan 19, 2022
• A miracle Jan 8, 2022
• web3 Jan 6, 2022
• Dec 31, 2021
• The audience wants you to succeed Dec 26, 2021
• Maybe It's Just a Product Nobody Wants Dec 8, 2021
• Dec 7, 2021
• Dec 4, 2021
• Stephen Sondheim Nov 26, 2021
• The Stevenote Nov 18, 2021
• Why do Americans work so hard? Nov 14, 2021
• Genius Nov 10, 2021
• Inflation and stock market highs Nov 8, 2021
• Nov 3, 2021
• New Jersey Polls Nov 2, 2021
• Sen. Manchin says he's not ready to back Biden's $1.75 trillion budget package Nov 1, 2021
• You are not how others perceive you Oct 30, 2021
• On the divine right of kings Oct 26, 2021
• Sex education, but not the TV show this time Oct 25, 2021
• Saying something old, but saying it better Oct 21, 2021
• A Cluttered Life: Middle-Class Abundance Oct 19, 2021
• Popularism Oct 16, 2021
• 📺 Sex Education Oct 11, 2021
• In Praise of Folly Oct 10, 2021
• ISO 2145 Oct 9, 2021
• A boring dystopia Oct 7, 2021
• Why did I let that in? Oct 5, 2021
• Tough conversations Oct 4, 2021
• Oct 3, 2021
• Gratitude Oct 2, 2021
• You are not your work Oct 2, 2021
• The story is less important than the telling Oct 1, 2021
• Perfectionism, or why I blog now Sep 30, 2021
• Sense memory Sep 29, 2021
• Material obsessions Sep 28, 2021
• What do people actually do at work all day? Sep 27, 2021
• Sep 26, 2021
• A Chemical Hunger Sep 26, 2021
• I’m not great at weekends. Sep 25, 2021
• Sep 21, 2021
• The conservative mindset Sep 20, 2021
• The importance of a classical education Sep 17, 2021
• Sep 16, 2021
• Sep 16, 2021
• Sep 15, 2021
• I need laundry folding TV Sep 13, 2021
• A good skill to know in case society collapses Sep 12, 2021
• Another humbling thought Sep 7, 2021
• Humbling thoughts Sep 7, 2021
• Rosh Hashanah Sep 6, 2021
• Bias doesn’t make sense. That’s why it is bias. Sep 5, 2021
• Teaching YA Lit in High School English Class Sep 4, 2021
• Vulnerability Sep 1, 2021
• The philosopher next door Aug 31, 2021
• I have a voice but nothing to say Aug 30, 2021
• What do you do? I help people. Aug 27, 2021
• The reason we should study literature Aug 23, 2021
• It doesn’t matter if it’s good. It matters that it’s yours. Aug 22, 2021
• Controls Aug 21, 2021
• Aug 12, 2021
• Lies I tell myself, vacation edition Aug 9, 2021
• Monuments to a Loser, or the Second Lost Cause Aug 4, 2021
• Procrastination Jul 29, 2021
• Jul 28, 2021
• One syllable Jul 27, 2021
• The Work-ation Jul 25, 2021
• The double-entry bookkeeping system and the tyranny of spreadsheets Jul 21, 2021
• Call a spade a spade Jul 20, 2021
• Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly. Jul 19, 2021
• Jul 18, 2021
• Failure is a great teacher, but it is not the only teacher. Jul 17, 2021
• The Coddling of the American Mind Jul 16, 2021
• Too Smart Jul 13, 2021
• Jul 11, 2021
• Preference vs. duty Jul 11, 2021
• Just be yourself...or not Jul 7, 2021
• The hourglass Jul 6, 2021
• What does America mean to me? Jul 5, 2021
• What I’m looking for in an open source project repo Jul 4, 2021
• Reading the news is a waste of time Jul 4, 2021
• On open-sourcing the Micro.blog client apps Jul 2, 2021
• On bullies, or why I have character Jun 30, 2021
• The Cut Jun 29, 2021
• Trying to change my mindset Jun 25, 2021
• All speech is persuasive speech Jun 24, 2021
• Why do we begin emails with “Dear so-and-so”? Jun 22, 2021
• The bad guy thinks he’s the good guy Jun 21, 2021
• Problems and questions: a Father’s Day post Jun 19, 2021
• This is me showing up Jun 18, 2021
• Jun 15, 2021
• Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All Jun 9, 2021
• 🔥 Climate change 🔥 Jun 8, 2021
• May 28, 2021
• Plasticity of Mind, or Lack Thereof May 20, 2021
• Siri Reveals Apple Event Planned for Tuesday, April 20 Apr 13, 2021
• James Hoffman’s AeroPress video Apr 9, 2021
• Apr 8, 2021
• Mar 24, 2021
• The COVID-versary Mar 15, 2021
• Mar 15, 2021
• Mar 5, 2021
• Trust Feb 16, 2021
• When “American Carnage” is the Tone at the Top Jan 7, 2021
• Dec 22, 2020
• Apr 7, 2020
• Feb 12, 2019
• Feb 2, 2018
• Jan 21, 2018
• Jan 16, 2018
• Jan 13, 2018
• Jan 5, 2018
• Picking a great writing font Jan 3, 2018
• Jan 2, 2018
• Dec 25, 2017
• Dec 22, 2017