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That's All, Folks!
Or, retiring the Substack to start something new
Dec 23, 2023
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Confession
A story for Advent
Dec 16, 2023
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November 2023
How to Stop Creeping Fascism
Or, a modest proposal about countering bicycle theft
Nov 28, 2023
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September 2023
We Did Start the Fire: Mayhem from the Internet Archive
Or, why we should not worry about large-language models telling people how to DBT (Do Bad Things)
Sep 25, 2023
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First Principles: Search Spaces
Or, mental models I regularly use
Sep 11, 2023
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August 2023
80th Percentile Pizza: On AI and Employment
Just because forecasting is useless doesn't mean it is not worth thinking things through
Aug 11, 2023
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The Eighth Type of Ambiguity
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June 2023
The Book Only You Can Read
(This essay was prompted by Richard Hanania’s “The Case Against Most Books,” his Substack essay about why you would be better off ignoring most books. I…
Jun 17, 2023
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May 2023
How I Failed in Business, Part Two
An uninstructional tale
May 19, 2023
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The Eighth Type of Ambiguity
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April 2023
What Were School Essays For, Anyway?
Reflections on the value of writing in the age of large language models
Apr 24, 2023
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Understanding Human Stupidity through Strategic Intelligence Failures
Or, Understanding the Micro through the Macro
Apr 20, 2023
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March 2023
The Question is no longer "How Do I Build X?"
The question is now "what shall (and what should) we build?"
Mar 25, 2023
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The Eighth Type of Ambiguity
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Three Short Pieces
Analogies between corporate and human life cycles, an example of third-order thinking, and a common misunderstanding of evolution (with a discussion of…
Mar 16, 2023
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