In my 40s and often think the same. BUT: how much of my time is now spent online noticing things that just weren't noticeable before? Plus, algos developed on basis of rewarding the part of the brain that stirs fight/flight so easy/ier to tend towards measurably worse as a snap/wrong judgement call?

great piece and makes you wonder what's the point of a lot of academic work, if it's designed to keep the walls high. Such a weird thing, when you consider the best academics at the top of their game distil their ideas very simply. Maybe because they're actually interested in a wider audience?

General Hertling. From across the Pond, I would like to indecorously declare that this man appears nothing short of a cad and a bounder! Keep up the good work btw