Category — Microblog Mondays

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I think I have found my secret skill: listing unconnected words. I keep playing the Divergent Association Task exercise, and I’ve been able to come up with randomness:

You list unrelated nouns (single word; no proper nouns) and it tells you how unrelated those words are. And how well you do this task related to other people taking the quiz. I believe only your first score counts for the research, but you can take the quiz over and over again, trying to best your own score.

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REI promised me three kinds of fun, and they delivered maybe one-and-a-half kinds of fun instead. The first is fun that is fun. The second is fun that is only fun in retrospect. I would classify this as not fun. You may be happy that you’ve done something and enjoy the memories, but that isn’t really fun.

For instance, I don’t enjoy the process of writing. I do enjoy having the completed manuscript. Having the completed manuscript does not, in retrospect, make the work fun.

The third type of fun is something that is not fun, even in retrospect. Or something, I assume, other people say is fun but you do not enjoy. Which leaves us with… one (or being generous, one-and-a-half) kind of fun.

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I love this article from Tor.com about how we assume things about each other based on our favourite books. For instance, if I said my favourite books are Handmaid’s Tale, The Magicians, and Piranesi, you are going to assume certain things about me. Whereas if I said my favourite books are by Malcolm Gladwell, Jonah Lehrer, and Jon Ronson… well… you may think something else.

Maybe if I was more into music, it would happen with music. But instead, I connect with people over what we read.

But this is the part I love: “Why ask someone what their favorite book is? Because you want to know something about them, and the answer to that question is revealing. But it’s very easy to be wrong about what it reveals. And this brings me to something even the internet has yet to ruin for me: the pleasure of being wrong.”

So true. But… even knowing that… what are your favourite books?

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Josh brought home croissants from a nearby bakery and took an additional pastry out of the bag. “It’s kind of how I imagine a cronut,” he said, and he proceeded to eat this sweet, buttery, doughnut-sans-hole confection. He gave me a bite, and it was amazing.

The next time he went to the bakery, I told him to pick me up a cronut-that-is-not-a-cronut. It hit me while he was out that the thing may be the fattest pastry in the world—a kouign-amman from Brittany—and I asked him to check the sign in the case. Sure enough, that’s what it was. And it tastes better than I even imagined. It was like dozens of layers of love.

What is the best thing you’ve eaten recently?

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Modern Love published a list of 36 questions people should use to increase love. (Though we liked The New Yorker’s version of 36 questions to fall out of love. We still like to say to each other: “Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you like to punch in the face?”)

Greater Good Science Center came out with a version for kids to use to find friends. My favourites:

• Describe your worst haircut ever.
• If you could be famous for something, what would it be?
• If you had a lot of money and could do anything you wanted with it, what is one thing you would do?

I’m not sure it would work to tell someone to stare deeply into the other person’s eyes for two minutes (I think that was the kickoff instruction in the original questions?) or to ask these questions in such a stilted manner. But teaching a person how to tell a story and then end with asking the other person to give their answer is kind of brilliant. Or, as GGSC points out, teachers could use this in the classroom for kids to get to know one another.

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