Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

(diary, working)
Working with the team, I’m floored almost daily at their ability to understand and apply the work – as well as help me produce it. These guys are amazing. And while they spend most of the time doing something else, and just answer questions or let me run ideas by them as I work, the investment of their time is just priceless. And I feel guilty every day that they sit through it with me.

There are only so many ‘very hard’ parts of the work. The natural law and the logic of rights and obligations require the most detail. Thankfully I won’t have to explain the grammars and the logics in the Constitution. We only have to lay out the criteria for strictly constructed legal form.

Personally, doing this work together has helped me understand that they’re just as good as I am at the reasoning, and it’s only that I can hold larger models in my head than others. That’s probably always been my advantage and I didn’t really understand it. It’s not like mathematicians who can hold strong discreet relationships in working memory. It’s more akin to very very large numbers of subtle relations.

Now I can still only work about three hours still before I get tired. I used to be able to do this for days at a time. But I’m clearly improving slowly. Hopefully I’ll continue to improve. Because if this keeps up we’ll finish it on time.

(reminiscence)
I miss Danny Fredrick. 🙁

https://philpeople.org/profiles/danny-frederick
A natural rights libertarian. UK. Hayek and Popper’s critical rationalism.

When we still had hope for the future of freedom, liberty, reason, and meritocracy.