Anyone who has lived for long enough can look back on their life and see where they made some pivotal decisions. Sometimes it's months of agonizing over what career to go into after school. Sometimes years of pain or joy come from quick, seemingly inconsequential decisions to take a puff, or walk this way instead of …

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I am young. From a human perspective, this is not true. I'm middle aged now. Being older than middle aged is in sight. But from the perspective of a being who will never cease to exist, I'm quite young. In fact, little pop quiz for you: What percent of your existence have you used up? I don't need to make any …

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Sometimes I debate with people about school reform. I will propose that some particular topic should be removed from the standard curriculum, and that we should add something else instead. Or perhaps that a certain set of facts should be removed, so that we can teach some other skill instead. These debates never go …

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