I beat the benchmark massively last week. I’ve started swimming again, which has meant regaining ground previously owned. This past week I set recent records in both (speed and distance), which was a huge improvement for me. By Christoffer Engström Let’s be clear: there is no chance I could beat Michael Phelps even if he had one arm tied behind his back. There are people in my pool who are faster than me.

A framework for when past performance is useful, vs when it's not.

Progressive taxes have some really nice second-order effects.

When a statement makes us feel good, we’re far less critical of it. We want it to be true, and we pay attention to evidence that confirms it, and discount evidence that rejects it.

Yeah, kind of.