@erinbraid

effective altruist before it was cool, effective altruist after it was cool. researcher & writer, master of logic, toddler parent

 San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2021
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There are very few baby books that 1. are available in board book format, 2. have rhyme and rhythm, and 3. aren't absolutely awful at rhyme and rhythm. This is, like, basically all of them:
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My feud with the local librarian who never lets my toddler do anything has reached a new low: she wouldn't let him QUIETLY AND GENTLY LOOK AT A BOOK under my direct supervision, because it was a book for adults, and so "playing" with it was not always allowed. 😡
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*was not allowed
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He likes to flip through and mutter "words on dis page", and maybe find an author photo. Since when is this a crime!!!
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Out of spite I checked out the book and let him look at it at home of course
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On this day in 1847: The student body of Geneva Medical College unanimously votes to allow Elizabeth Blackwell to enroll, and promises that "no conduct of ours shall cause her to regret her attendance at this institution."
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Elizabeth Blackwell was of course the first woman in America (or the UK, where she was born) to earn a medical degree
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A 1.5-year-old's review of the latest @WorksInProgMag: "Bird eating this." "Words on that page." "House." [front view of the Pantheon] "Lying down. Make a big mess." [Victorian elites playing rugby] "The end!" "Read it again."
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From an 1889 paper about infant mortality: "On no ground other than selfishness can the practice be defended of sending children, who are expected to die, out of an institution so that the published death rate of the institution shall be small." The more things change...
Leah Pierson
@leah_piersonSep 24
The problem with hospital quality metrics is that it’s much easier to game them than it is to fix them, and gaming them is often harmful. E.g., it’s easier to reduce average length of stay by admitting people who never needed to be admitted (vs safely discharging people sooner).
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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… It continues "Such action does not prevent death, but often accelerates it." Yeah no kidding!
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I read this page to my 1.5yo and then he said, "Baby bird not fly YET." Okay mister baby motivational speaker...
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Matt Reardon
@MjreardOct 2
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Breaking news, there is a FIFTH playground within a mile of us that I somehow didn't know about until just now. Embarrassing tbh
Erin Braid@erinbraidJul 24
Replying to @maiab
I wouldn't go so far as to say I don't need a stroller, but yeah it's awesome having a playground 0.2 miles away. And 0.3 miles, and 0.6 miles, and 0.8 miles...
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Plus there are three more that are right around the 1 mile mark, so fair to say a total of eight within a mile. A good place to be a toddler!
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My baby has already learned to say "bird" instead of "caw caw", "carousel" instead of "round and round", and "Waymo™" instead of "talking car". They grow up so fast 🥲
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sci-fi society where people feel entitled not just to wealth and not just to a positive derivative of wealth over time but also a positive second derivative, and they're furious when their economy grows 10% for the third year in a row
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Happy to report that we have a train toddler! Happy for me, I mean, because the history of transportation and steam power and industrialization and supply chains are more interesting than dinosaurs These are our favorite train books so far, I recommend them all:
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The red one, bought secondhand with no dust jacket, is Train by Elisha Cooper
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Honorable mention to Locomotive by Brian Floca. The language is just too flowery and overwritten for me to have it around all the time, but it is very beautiful and informative!
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"robed creature flitting about the house pursuing inscrutable agenda" stage of parenthood
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I've lived in the Netherlands and taken kids to playgrounds there and I don't think this is true, I think the range of playground floors there is pretty similar to the US However! I did see this playground on a canal boat, which I dare say you won't find in any major US city
Charlotte Lee
@cljackSep 1
You know how in America we make playground floors a soft spongy material so when the kids inevitably fall they don't hurt themselves too bad? In the Netherlands, they make playground floors *extra hard, on purpose* because the children must learn that mistakes lead to suffering
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