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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • It’s an interesting comparison because it seems to me dueling comes from times and places where personal reputation was much more important to life destiny than now due to a lack of protective legal and other institutional infrastructure that dampens the risks in living and working with strangers.

    So maybe any rising sensitivity in the present is due to the feeling that this infrastructure is weakened.


















  • A teacher told us what he thought was a funny story about his wife, who was on track to julliard or something playing piano as a kid, and then he bought her a nice piano when they were married and she discovered she couldn’t play anymore and basically never played again --they’re in their 60s now. I just felt so awful for her. You need good friends to help you over something like that.