All we have are Mussolini cosplayers who can’t make the trains run on time, Rockefeller LARPers who can’t build a refinery, and Nikola Tesla tribute acts who’ve never shipped hardware. History will remember this as the age of the cover band. We are ruled by guys who watched a YouTube documentary about Napoleon and said “I could do that” but meant the hat.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

“all models are wrong but some are useful” i say about the model that just confirmed all my existing prejudices. extremely useful. love this model. Can I interest you in my course about this model

I'm not going to talk about politics anymore. I'm just going to focus on the economy, the cost of living, rental prices, climate change and - GODDAMMIT

“think for yourself” always seems to end with “and arrive at my exact conclusions or you’re a sheep.” very liberating framework

sorry but if your reaction to “the US bombed venezuela” isnt immediate horror youre a fucking psychopath and i hope you step on legos forever​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement. It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

Westenberg.

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins

In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to compl...

some of you have never had a guy at a party explain the trolley problem to you like he invented ethics and then say "makes you think" and it shows

Twitter is basically guys who are literal neo nazis + guys who are "not political" but have extremely specific opinions about which races are good at math

The Digital Nomad Life: the freedom to choose which collapsing empire to be the least poor in

I don’t want to be an alarmist but I fear tomorrow is another day