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Nebula
Ideas
Half-formed thoughts that don't fit anywhere else yet.
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The learning curve nobody warns you about
The 10,000-hour rule is told by people who never counted. The hours are not linear — and the plateau is where judgement is quietly built.
Your screen is lying about colour, and that's the clever part
A phone screen has no yellow pixels, yet shows you yellow. That isn't a cheat — it's additive RGB and the quirks of your own eye, doing exactly their job.
The Fermi paradox, for tired people
Where is everybody? The Drake equation is less a calculation than a row of knobs measuring our ignorance. Twiddle them; watch the answer swing wildly.