Kanjun Qiu Kanjectures
Generating explanations of the world is my favorite activity to do with friends. Sometimes the explanation points at an interesting idea—I’ve put a small subset of these here for your enjoyment, and will add more over time. If you have evidence for / against, don’t hesitate to tell me!
Thanks to Josh Albrecht for coming up with "Kanjectures", and to Andy Matuschak for inspiring this design.
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Acceptance is about accurately seeing the value of what we haveOct 16Humanity is in progressOct 16Refusing to tolerateOct 16Most dysfunctional behavior stems from fearOct 16Intellectualizing can be a sneaky way of protecting ourselves from feeling hurtOct 16Humans are fundamentally creative when freed from fear and scarcityOct 16We should be very careful what narratives we adoptOct 16Technological and social change are critical to each otherOct 16Trauma and protective voices result from model overfittingOct 16Predictability without good explanation is a trailhead for researchOct 16A mathematical model of agency and self-efficacyOct 16