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Fog, Friction, and the Dark Forest

September 13, 2024

I wrote this week on the Dark Forest and the internet. I finally had a chance to read this essay collection, and it got me thinking a bit on Clausewitz and...

No Such Journey

August 16, 2024

Self-help and consumption communities sell us journeys to become something we aren't. This isn't the way. There are some cleaner ways to realize ambitions, starting with discarding the narrative side of the whole thing.

Continuing on the parasite theme, I wrote this week on communities within the monetized internet — specifically how community members are harvested for their...

Parasite, Symbiont, Scab

Can products be parasitic? I was learning to design PCBs last fall, and specifically made one that attach to an existing product and to subvert its use. That...

Building within an ecosystem

Despite a hectic two weeks solo parenting and then hosting my own parents (~reinforcements), I managed to make some progress on a small open source project,...

Legibility in Work and Fiction

Reflecting on revisiting a favourite book, and how fundamentally it shaped my mental model of “work” in the startup world. Also on forming community,...

Systems share poorly

Hi! Confused why you’re getting this? Give this a read. An initially practical attempt to untangle two projects became a longer reflection on how to...

Diverging in 2024

Hi! It’s been a while. What is this? You’re getting this email because you subscribed to Diverge Weekly in the past (my email from andrewlb.com), or...

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