What Science?

What If This Is It?

Prickly Oxheart | 3rd July 2025

Different perspective on the "fear of missing out". Perhaps missing out in some regard is the point of living at all. "What if missing out isn't a failure of optimisation but a condition of being human? What if the very fact that we cannot have everything is what makes anything matter at all? Scarcity isn't always the enemy of meaning — it's the condition that can make meaning possible" (800 words)

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How To Science A Science With Science

John Kennedy | Diagram Monkey | 3rd July 2025

Reflections on the scientific method. If progress isn't happening fast enough, the solution is likely not to enforce and invest in a small handful of "likely" ideas. Advances are generally infinitesimal even when the going is good. Collectively, they become an avalanche. Empiricism is all. When someone has a peculiar-sounding notion, the correct response is not to scoff or sneer, but simply to say "show me" (3,800 words)