Recommended Texts

This is a consistently-updated (nonlinear, random insertions) list of the best things I read on the web. If any of these live links is ever dead, it is probably backed-up on ArchiveDotToday.

— Entrepreneurial Statecraft Gets the Goods

— In Plain Sight

— The Courageous Society

— The Problem With Lindy

— There is no "away"

— A Big Little Idea Called Autarky

— Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence

— When to Suppress Speech

— Facts Vs Truth

— Quit Your Job

— Hard is Not Defensible

— Where do pro-social institutions come from?

— Blame-Game Theory

— Literary Fiction: Bullshit?

— The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

— Intellectual Conformity Is Adaptive

— Doing Business in Japan

— Absolute scale corrupts absolutely

— Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – digested read

— AI's meaning-making problem

— Bus Factor 1

— Childhood’s End

— Who's Afraid Of Lil Wayne?

— Why does DARPA work?

— Reality has a surprising amount of detail

— Down with Innovation, Up with Imitation

— Why everything might have taken so long

— Problems with authority

— all of human economic history, i guess

— Complexity within systems with multiple parts, by way of socio-political precedents of gay marriage

— The Art of Planning Freedom

— The paradox of writerly rereading

— The Ultimate "Is Inception a Dream" Theory

— Welcome to The Ringer

— Introverts, Extroverts, Aspies and Codies

— A Partial Explanation of Zoomer Girl Derangement

— A Big Little Idea Called Egodicity

— Status as a Service

— How the Tesla way keeps it ahead of the pack

— Why software ends up complex

— Ideology Isn't About Ideas

— How Systems Design Explains The World

— Tesla Kept Busy In 2020

— How Netflix works

— Where Do Business Mafias Come From

— An interview with a leading Venture Capitalist