2021 • 04
Newsletter
2021 • 03
RACI
the consulting trick that actually works
2021 • 03
The Amateur
the Wright Brothers were amateurs
2021 • 03
Notes on education and the 117th U.S. Congress
I scraped Wikipedia for this
2021 • 03
Book Review: Range
Range changed how I think about specialization
2021 • 02
Book Review: The Black Swan
Mediocristan vs. Extremistan
2021 • 02
Selected Passages from The Black Swan
Taleb at his best and most petty
2021 • 02
Book Review: A Brief History of Time
Dr. Johnson stubbed his toe to refute Berkeley
2021 • 02
Pessimism is easy, optimism is hard
science fiction is a cop-out
2021 • 02
The Reverse Social Network
the reverse of every social network
2021 • 01
Do You Own Your Stocks?
Robinhood stopped the game mid-play
2021 • 01
On cryptocurrency pt. 2
the story, not just the speculation
2021 • 01
On cryptocurrency
the simplest explanation I could write
2021 • 01
Book Review: Seeing Like A State
governments love spreadsheets
2020 • 12
What I learned in 2020
2020 • 12
Comedy creates opportunity
comedians know what's true before the rest of us
2020 • 11
If it's free...
I started paying for social media
2020 • 11
Spacepost
The Beast had eight GPUs
2020 • 11
Making Standups Simple with Roam
Using Roam's query feature.
2020 • 11
Words Are Powerful
written during election week
2020 • 10
Common Sense and Science
Why experts shouldn't be the only ones asking questions.
2020 • 10
How to run a digital conference
Twitter DMs beat cold emails
2020 • 10
Twitter Is A Professional Social Network
still true, even after the rebrand
2020 • 10
Why Do Teenagers Want To Be Influencers?
The answer lies in the history behind formal education and what it means for our future.
2020 • 09
Truth Decay
Four trends that determine how we talk about the future.
2020 • 09
Practical Advice For Changing Jobs
Tips for effectively managing a transition while working remotely.
2020 • 09
Personal Productivity
production before lunch
2020 • 08
My Enemy, The Noun
drop The Noun
2020 • 08
You Are What You Read
Supersize Me but for your brain
2020 • 08
The Open-Source P.h.D.
Open-source alternatives to a P.h.D. program
2020 • 08
The Lifetime Curriculum, Revisited
A modern education that rewards breadth over depth.
2020 • 07
Why You Need A Captain's Log
send information through time to yourself
2020 • 07
Who's The Real Expert?
As language models improve, programming will begin to look more like writing.
2020 • 07
Why We Should Name Our Models
Asimov started it all for me
2020 • 07
Programming 3.0
programmers will become computer psychologists
2020 • 07
Ghost Writing with GPT-3
the taste gap
2020 • 07
Walk Without Rhythm
hoodoos in the canyon
2020 • 07
Warning Signs
I removed a spare tire to fit a textbook
2020 • 07
Untethered
writing from my car
2020 • 06
On Maintenance and Machine Learning
do it before you need it
2020 • 06
The Perell Production Function
Breaking down a modern media empire.
2020 • 06
Note-Taking Is Time Travel
Note-taking is the most important form of communication that you do every day.
2020 • 05
Personal Canon
my reading list, frozen in time
2020 • 04
Senior Year Summer
college sells three things in one package
2020 • 04
Words
tsundoku, boketto, hygge
2019 • 12
Best Links From 2019
2019 • 06
Libra, and Some Numbers
2019 • 06
On Libra and Privacy
anonymous is not the same as private
2019 • 06
On Libra and Governance
is there a CEO of Bitcoin?
2019 • 06