If there is one task for which a middle-aged dad should be uniquely qualified, it is dividing Dad’s Famous Scrambled Eggs between just two plates. This is not neurosurgery, folks. This is not international diplomacy. It’s breakfast.

And yet—yet!—one morning before 7 a.m., before my requisite four espressos, standing alone in my kitchen with two plates and a finite quantity of scrambled eggs, I found myself confronting a problem that turned out to be far stranger than it had any right to be.

Cognitive Science, Narrative Nonfiction, Behavioral Economics, Decision TheoryAlistair VoganJune 2, 2026Please Make Yourself (Un)comfortable, Please make yourself uncomfortable, more for less, veil of ignorance, behavioral economics, John Rawls, self-serving bias, perception Comment