Making Light: Motivation and doubt

Teresa Nielsen-Hayden often perpetrates particularly penetrating essays, and this one -- Making Light: Motivation and doubt -- is a gem.

It discusses a style of thought that has been a trial to me all of my life. These people who make decisions, independent of fact and evidence, and cling to those decisions regardless of everything. They drive me nuts. Mind you, that's a short drive in a fast car for me.