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That's All, Folks!
Or, retiring the Substack to start something new
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Confession
A story for Advent
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November 2023

How to Stop Creeping Fascism
Or, a modest proposal about countering bicycle theft
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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)
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First Principles: Search Spaces
Or, mental models I regularly use
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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
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The Eighth Type of Ambiguity

June 2023

May 2023

How I Failed in Business, Part Two
An uninstructional tale
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The Eighth Type of Ambiguity

April 2023

What Were School Essays For, Anyway?
Reflections on the value of writing in the age of large language models
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The Eighth Type of Ambiguity
Understanding Human Stupidity through Strategic Intelligence Failures
Or, Understanding the Micro through the Macro
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The Eighth Type of Ambiguity

March 2023

The Question is no longer "How Do I Build X?"
The question is now "what shall (and what should) we build?"
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The Eighth Type of Ambiguity
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…
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The Eighth Type of Ambiguity
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