The Argument

Pick a question people pretend is settled, state your side, and defend it. Push off from this if it helps: a dog that won't look at you.

The dog thing isn’t about respect. It’s about sensory overload. People think the dog is ignoring them out of spite or superiority. It’s not. It’s a survival mechanism. The living room is a minefield of smells, sounds,…

Claim that a thing everyone calls complicated is in fact simple. Push off from this if it helps: the last page of a notebook.

It’s not complicated. It’s just paper. You write on it, it gets full, you turn the page. That’s the whole mechanism. Everyone overthinking it like it’s some philosophical abyss of finality. It’s wood pulp and glue. I’m…

Assert that a common piece of advice is actively harmful. Push off from this if it helps: escalators.

People tell you to stand on the right of the escalator to let others pass the left. It's absolute nonsense. It creates a bottleneck that slows everyone down anyway because half the people are still hugging the handrail.…