A Room with a Blog

1. It’s easy to feel bad if you start comparing yourself to folks who are brighter, harder working, or generally more capable.

2. Whether feeling bad decreases your productivity I don’t know. 

3. Growth mindset is supposedly a way to increase your productivity. Growth mindset means believing in bullshit.

4. To be happy, don’t hold yourself to impossible standards.

5. A more specific way of saying that is to have systems instead of goals. Whether this increases your productivity, I again don’t know.

6. If you want to increase productivity, the only ways I feel sure of right now are improving your environment, and trying hard. (Any suggestions?)

Jennifer Lawrence had nude photos stolen last year and distributed online to thousands of people. 

I think unwanted distribution of sexual photos of folks of good character should be banned. Ms. Lawrence called this a sex crime; she is right.

Not only should the hacking and distribution be a crime but anyone possessing distributed materials should be fined. If the materials caused career damage, the sentence for hacking should be worse.

We need to reign in free speech absolutism, because along with speech, another important value is dignity. For those economists out there, I’ll also mention efficiency. Hurting women this way is not a right.

Some folks made light of JLaw’s photo hack. Maybe they were jealous of JLaw being successful. But let’s consider someone who wasn’t famous, Nicole Coco, a revenge porn victim who then tried suicide.

Allowing this also opens a door to another crime, the distribution of child pornography. They both involve distributing sexual images without consent.