"The point of a story can penetrate far deeper than the point of any bullet."

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"Many scientists suspect that the universe can ultimately be described by a simple (perhaps even deterministic) formal…"

"The Fool is setting out on an adventure, looking up as he steps off of a literal cliff into the figurative unknown. W…"

"Your annoying classmate who asked a lot of “stupid” questions—they might just have been strengthening their understan…"

"You made it, graduates! You finished the tutorial level! You know how to work the controls. The game of life doesn’t …"

"The schema mechanism learns from its experiences, expressing discoveries in its existing representational vocabulary …"

"I get that the world may not feel like your oyster. And I’m not going to tell you that everything is going to be okay…"

"Not because things can’t go wrong but because the rest of your life - this thing you’re about to go make - is the ult…"

"Learning to embrace being The Fool is not all-or-nothing. You can ramp into it, starting with smaller bites if that h…"