Meghan Marangola

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This country was built by serifs, and it will be built back by serifs.
Times New Roman Turns Right - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
(Also, on principle, women are conditioned to apologize for too many things, and they do not need one more thing on that list.)
I’m Not Sorry for My Delay - The Atlantic
they think they owe their correspondent an apology
I’m Not Sorry for My Delay - The Atlantic
doing good work, but in a method that isn’t compatible with family life and isn’t plausibly going to become compatible
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? - The New York Times
nd that women, being more oriented toward child rearing, were more likely to have protracted conflict with their rivals within the tribe and were less likely to reconcile at the end.
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? - The New York Times
it results in violence toward babies
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? - The New York Times
became mandatory for us to believe all women, no matter how credible or not credible their testimony might be
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? - The New York Times
elite social networks were centered in their local communities
The Making of a Techno-Nationalist Elite - American Affairs Journal
This class is, in fact, deeply indebted to the civilization that made their firms possible, one that most of them feel no kinship with or obligation to
The Making of a Techno-Nationalist Elite - American Affairs Journal
I didn’t sample data broadly enough. I observed Torbjörn in one context and thought, “He’s that kind of guy,” instead of thinking, “He seems like that kind of guy, now let’s throw him a curve ball and see what happens.”
Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meet
I was heavily oriented toward friendships of utility as a teenager
Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meet
the partygoers get all excited about seeing, as they think, the start of a great romance
Looking for Alice - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland
In my experience, great relationships are harder to compress into a sensible string of words.
Looking for Alice - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland
If you ask two or three increasingly detailed questions about something they tell you, you get there.
Looking for Alice - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland
We are speechifying our prose just as earlier generations created a very literary plain style. To write like we speak means to write with fewer syntactic sentences and in more speech-like patterns.
The triumph of logical English - Works in Progress Magazine
The plain style is loved on the internet, especially by people involved in tech, progress, blogs, and rationalism of various forms. And no wonder. As Rees-Mogg said, it has traditionally been the prose of sceptical philosophers, ‘of those who wish to trim the fat off ideology’.
The triumph of logical English - Works in Progress Magazine
people seem to have this mental model where medical progress simply happens
Ask not why would you work in biology, but rather: why wouldn't you?