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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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Let's Stop Pretending We Are Original Thinkers (Updated 2022-01-11)
Some questions about the pressure to be original
M. Flood
Jan 8
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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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Can We Uninvent a Technology?
Making things secret again, even mysterious
M. Flood
Mar 5
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Twice Read Books: Peter Thiel's "Zero to One" Or, On Secrets & Mysteries
Alpha, beta, and gamma secrets
M. Flood
Jan 22
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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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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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What? Who? Whom?
What is this about, Who is writing it, and Whom is it for?
M. Flood
Jan 1
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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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Career Day
A short story about family, superhuman strength, and chromium Cretaceous creations
M. Flood
Jan 30
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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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On Corruption
Or, Making Corruption Work for Us
M. Flood
May 12
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