Common Crewmate Mistakes in Among Us

The COVID-19 pandemic created a lot of winners (e.g. Amazon, Spikeball) and losers (e.g. airlines, extroverts). Among the former was social deduction game Among Us. Like most indie games, it languished in obscurity after debuting on Steam in November of 2018. However, the developers didn’t quit. Their determination was rewarded when big name Twitch streamers …

Why I Disliked School

Although I had plenty of positive experiences, my general impression of primary and secondary education was unfavorable. Classes were frequently unchallenging, originality was punished, and my social ineptitude led to years of bullying. Sometime after I graduated from high school, I discovered Paul Graham’s Why Nerds are Unpopular. Suddenly, everything made sense. The essay was …

Description Versus Prescription

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” is one of my favorite George Bernard Shaw quotes. We think that communication is happening every time two people speak to one another, when that is far from the case. From the Latin communicare (“to share”), communication is the act of …