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The Importance of Brain Tech and the Limits to Acquiring It

"There’s an idea articulated in Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon that goes something like this: imagine there is a project that will take five years to complete. Imagine further that a technology that could be developed in a year would, once acquired, enable the project to be completed in only two ye

Transcending the Authority Complex

I continue circling back to two related concepts. The first is the

Making the Most of Google Search [Grind Skills]

Making the Most of Google Search [Grind Skills]

The Importance of Search Excepting the ability to read and write, perhaps

Freedom is Found at the Frontier

photo credit: patrissimo I've heard it said that the success

Use a Feed Aggregator [Grind Skills]

Update 2023: These days it's uncommon people even know what

The Power of Blogging (On why I blog)

photo credit: the name is JoshBlogging, which I define as published informal

Staying Together by William Glasser

"More than anything else, hoping yoru partner will change or actively trying to change him or her desroys sexual love. that your dissatisfaction is justified makes no difference. You can be “right” and still kill your relationship. In practice, what this all adds up to is criticism. The criticism ma

Positive Addiction by William Glasser

Finally and most important, to find happiness we need others, but an

Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca

Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca Seneca, like other Stoics, has

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebNassim Taleb's The Black

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "Bankers Designed Banks to Blow Up"

Just watched a fifteen minute interview by Bloomberg of Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Grind Skills: Mastering the Mundane of Everyday Life

Grind Skills: Mastering the Mundane of Everyday Life

The Grind How much time do we spend on the routine grinds