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The Totality of Frugality
My parents did a good job of making sure I had everything I needed growing up.
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How I Got Started
I got started around 13.8 billion years ago, give or take a few tens of millions of years.
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Oh Well, Whatever. Nevermind!
I arrived on day one of high school after a very harrowing middle school experience overall, and I decided that I would reinvent myself.
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Theory of Mind!
Sally is in one of those controlled settings that psychological experiments will often use.
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Latchkey Kids
One thing Gen X kids had was independence.
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Hyperactive
Were you a hyperactive kid?
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The Triangle Choke
Writing is a really important part of my life.
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The Things You Already Know
Ever listen to someone lecturing you about a subject you already know about?
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Thought Experiments
You start out without experience in the physical world from day one.
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Swallow Your Spit
Baseball was really common in the southern US, and a bunch of us kids would play ball in the street where I grew up.
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Rubicon
In 49 BCE, the Roman Republic was hanging onto its existence by a thread.
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Quilts and Quills
My grandmother made a quilt for me, the only son of her oldest son, before she died.
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