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Apps are traps

The usual frame is that there’s an app for anything you’d want to do. But that frame hides a cost.

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Conspiracy is a system

An update to Hanlon’s Razor that accounts for systems.

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Uncertain thoughts

An exploration into uncertainty.

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Going cyborg

Is it inevitable that mankind must merge with machine?

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Improving the world by staying silent

Sometimes, as Paul Portesi puts it, you have to get small.

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Frontier, stagnation, cycle

Thoughts on the cyclical nature of exploration and exploitation.

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Creativity and constraints

I’ve long held that creativity requires constraints. Putting these thoughts down.

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The Age of Too Much

Have you noticed you have an attention problem? There are only so many TV shows we can binge watch on Netflix, photos we can scroll, books we can read, games we can play, and on and on. Our attention problem is due to an exponential growth in things to do, content to consume, and things […]

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How Normal People Are Turned Into True Believers

Could You Join a Cult? You’ve likely never worried about inadvertently joining a cult. “Only whack-o’s join cults,” and, “I could never be like that …” Of course, to be sure, who could be like that? The notion you might abandon your sense of self, adopt a doctrine of unquestionable beliefs, and in the course, […]

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To exist is to aggress

Pacifism is the belief that violence is unjustifiable under any circumstances, and that all disputes should be settled by peaceful means. How?