Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Padding the Corner, published by jefftk on September 14, 2023 on LessWrong.

There's a shelf in my dad's kitchen, about four feet off the ground.I remember when I stopped being short enough that I could walk underit: ouch! I didn't get a concussion or anything, but it was prettyunpleasant. My sisters and cousins also remember bonking their headson it. I noticed my oldest was getting just tall enough, and startedto tell her this story warning her about it.

While I was telling the story I realized how silly this was, andstopped what I was doing to put some padding on the corner.

A washcloth folded over and screwed to the shelf doesn't lookwonderful, but it's now a couple years later, three of the cousins aretall enough to intersect with it, and no one has gotten hurt. Maybesomeday we can do something more elegant, but in the meantime fixingsharp corners beats warning people.

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