Making a virtue out of necessity

Lee and Simon take too long getting to the three questions, which in themselves are the start of a chat about community. Also, Lee edited out all Simon's mentions of Bruce Springsteen.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• We don't know whether we got it right about things that are random vs things that are arbitrary, but we know we shouldn't have even tried to talk about: "randomness is not haphazardness; it is a measure of uncertainty of an outcome": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness
• ipotesi vs assumption: https://context.reverso.net/translation/italian-english/ipotesi
• pressgang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment
• flying freehold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_freehold
• sinto muito: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/portuguese-english/sinto-muito
• mortificare: https://www.wordreference.com/iten/mortificare
• deus ex machina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina
• Stephen King's Elevation: https://stephenking.com/works/novella/elevation.html
• Medea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea
• report on Jason Sudeikis's Golden Globe speech: https://www.vulture.com/2021/02/2021-golden-globes-jason-sudeikis-acceptance-speech-watch.html
• Leo Tolstoy's The Three Questions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Questions
• browser extension that blocks Amazon, Google and Facebook: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/24/22297686/browser-extension-blocks-sites-using-google-facebook-microsoft-amazon
• Harvard study re 47% (NOT 49% Simon) of our time spent thinking about something other than what we are doing: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/11/wandering-mind-not-a-happy-mind/
• it takes a whole village to raise a child: https://rightforeducation.org/cultures/it-takes-a-whole-village/

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