Joe Cecil

Coming up with research questions is a lot easier if I have a concrete artifact to get curious about

I found myself needing to come up with research questions this week about a dataset we're collecting at work. We have a bunch of survey data we collected for an ongoing research project, and a report some of my coworkers wrote that analyzes the data and presents their

I don't know what desperate means but it sounds bad and I'd rather not be it --- so maybe I need to relax

I spoke to a lady recently who wanted to start a country bar. I thought that sounded like a pretty cool ambition, and I said so. I found it attractive — maybe the more so because she was willing to admit it out loud, when she might be subject to skepticism

I use Twitter* mostly in pursuit of love

(*and Twitterlikes [Mastodon, BlueSky, Substack Notes], and also a Discord that I'm in...) 1. For fun/entertainment. To get news on e.g. DELTARUNE via Toby Fox's BlueSky, and on what Jon Simms is up to lately. To see random cat videos and similar things. Selected

Book review: The Alabaster Girl

Zan Perrion's The Alabaster Girl is an odd genre of book. It is a book about women from a man's perspective written mainly, I think, for men. It is classed on Amazon as literary fiction, and describes itself as a novel, and it isn't

Fear and loathing of living friendlier

I have long felt vaguely that, hey, it would sure be nice if I talked to people more, aren't people interesting, yadda yadda — to live friendlier. I find people fascinating. It seems obvious that talking to people more would be positive expected value. It seems obvious that this

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