My Goedel Is Killing Me

Have you ever had the experience of noticing a certain pattern in a wild variety of contexts, a pattern that occurs so consistently that you feel it simply has to mean something … but you have no idea what? I say “in a wild variety of contexts” to rule out cases of patterns that occur within the same context, even though, at the time, you may have no idea of the cause. I remember back in the…

Break off reading book mid-paragraph in order to crack wise about reading on Twitter.

Deliberate over whether to mention text’s author directly, redrafting several times.

Google phrase to which you are responding, wind up at author’s blog.

Click through a few posts, nagged by creeping sense that you can’t properly grasp content without completing reading from which you’ve been distracted.

Start reading comments instead, clicking through to the sites of tangentially related thinkers and academics with whose work you have even less familiarity and facility.

Catch up on Twitter timeline.

Post tweet.