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CDs are annoyingly delicate to handle. Vinyl does not care about your finger tips. Vinyl sleeves are also more attractive than CD cases and easier to store on a shelf or bucket.

At least some vinyl buyers who don’t own record players may be buying them as gifts for people who have them.

Last Christmas, I bought 3 vinyl records as gifts. I don’t own a record player.

This is an excellent reply

There was some report in the New York Times while back that indicated that these companies staff a remote operator for every three of these cars, or something close to that, so the idea that they’re fully automated is a pretense, and the price needs to make up for the cost of remote assistance

Barefoot got me into running. It simply seemed easier and freer to run almost barefoot than in boxy shoes that everyone (falsely) assumed you needed. I did 2 marathons and many, many half marathons and 10 milers this way. Ironically I just switched to hokas, which have a barefoot feel in a very padded, spongy sole

I agree. Academic math is taught as a set of rote rules or steps. The focus is not on intuitive understanding. I was taught the usual method of long division and carrying all by rote. Only later on in my academic life did I work out on my own why it works as it does.

Productivity in building construction has not improved much, according to data, even if tools have improved.

Even if tripling house size doesn’t literally triple costs, that is a straw man. It certainly must account for some of the cost increase.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Some of these are very country or group specific. “Lit” is a term used in American hip hop. “Pissed” is mainly used in Britain. “Wasted” is used by American high school and college students.

Most acclaimed or popular books are mixed. The trick is to vary the speed and depth of your reading. Read slow and enjoy the most informative parts. Skim the boring sections or chapters. A good book gives you a sense of awe and wonder that makes you look up from the page and think about what you just read. You can use that as a guide post as to whether it’s worth finishing a book. Always read a sample before buying.

I made far fewer mistakes and could type faster using the BlackBerry physical thumb keyboard. Apple should sell attachable thumb keyboards for their phones.

Popular accounts from earlier decades, when fewer people went off to college, suggest that high school used to play this role, as well as being a place where many people met their spouse.

My guess is college itself is less important to lifetime friend accumulation than spending any amount of significant time with age peers when you’re a young adult. In my circle, many life-long friendships were formed by young colleagues in their first jobs or among young post-college roommates.

The typical college years just happen to line up neatly with the part of adult life in which people are most interested in new experiences and new people. You tend to make lots of lasting friendships when you’re interested in making friends, and everyone around you is as interested as you are. As an older adult, most people in the same stage of life simply have no interest in friendship with you.

I was extremely shy and awkward when I was young. I even bought a cognitive therapy book called Overcoming Social Anxiety in my early 20’s. As you get older, a few things happen: - Your social confidence grows. You focus on just being polite and respectful, which are easier rules of behavior to follow, rather than saying or doing the “right thing” to be socially graceful, fluid, and open - You recognize that you have no obligation to be anyone’s entertainment and that you don’t have to try to be interesting or entertaining to others - You develop your repertory of filler words and questions to avoid the so-called awkward silence. You get better at small, filler talk in general, and no longer dismiss it as fake or unnecessary but merely as a functional means to grease our interactions - You focus less on social interaction as the measure of life and focus more on objective accomplishment - You have more power to avoid unwanted social interaction - Your “fight or flight” response tends to calm down when you are speaking to others - You gain confidence once you begin to recognize how tremendously insecure other people are, when you used to assume you were the insecure one, because they seemed so socially comfortable and graceful compared to you. - You realize that much social interaction is status-seeking over status metrics that perhaps you don’t even care about.