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Overkill
A recognizable pattern and a mental model
M. Flood
Jun 28
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How do they keep their jobs? How do they get promoted?
A rare comment on a contemporary issue. Also philosophical reflections on the role of optionality in the life of wisdom
M. Flood
Jun 21
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Why Sorcery Has (Almost) Certainly Died Out
An exercise in (only semi-serious) mental modelling
M. Flood
Jun 16
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The Memories of Captain Zosov
A short story
M. Flood
May 16
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On Corruption
Or, Making Corruption Work for Us
M. Flood
May 12
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Twice Read Books: Nassim Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" or, On Hidden Generators
On living with known and unknown probabilities
M. Flood
Apr 16
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I Wanted to be a Wizard of Armageddon
Or, "Nuclear War: Much More Than You Wanted To Know"
M. Flood
Apr 2
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Twice Read Books: Blaise Pascal's "Penseés" Or, On Distraction
Absolutely not an essay about Pascal's Wager
M. Flood
Mar 19
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Can We Uninvent a Technology?
Making things secret again, even mysterious
M. Flood
Mar 5
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Twice Read Books: Rachel Kushner's "The Flamethrowers" Or, On Delaying
Some thoughts on the differences between waiting and delaying
M. Flood
Feb 19
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The Fever Tree
A short story
M. Flood
Feb 14
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No, there are not too many good books to read
Counsels to read more of less
M. Flood
Feb 5
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