Introduction
Welcome to my new blog! There will be three general themes. First, I left facebook because I truly hated the inability to create any kind of nuance in any discussion of anything that mattered. Memes and black-and-white thinking ruled, to the determent of reasoned, respectful conversation in which contrary viewpoints were welcome - in which areas of gray mattered. So, I hope to write pieces intended to persuade, but am perfectly happy for disagreement as long as it is in the gray spirit! Second, the last several years, I have also become starkly aware that our gray matter sucks. That is, our brains are really poor at many things including, but certainly not limited to, weighing evidence, weighing risk, understanding our own biases, making rational decisions and hundreds of other of cognitive biases . Beyond that, our memories suck too—they are chock-full of inaccuracies and confabulations. So when people say, "I don't see how people can vote for Trump"—I do. It's ...