My tendency to assume the worst occupies so much of my imagination. That's when I really that the brain is really designed to anticipate the future—the immediate future and the distant future and the near term… but especially the near term. Can you eat and protect yourself for the next few days?
Stone age brains collide with modern bureaucracies, aka hive brains, aka high order systems. Stone age brains have to update themselves constantly to make sense of strange and new things, constantly have to make sense of strange, incoming data.
Friday. I'm really exhausted after my trip to Yale, which was fun and in many ways a welcome diversion from New York (and I didn't mind a steak dinner on Yale's dollar either).