Archives
Dec 2023
- 28: On having kids
Nov 2023
Jun 2023
- 12: Han on rest
- 04: Getting started with tpot
- 02: Some thoughts on "AI could defeat all of us combined"
May 2023
Dec 2022
Aug 2022
Apr 2022
Feb 2021
Jan 2021
Sep 2020
Jul 2020
Jun 2020
- 13: The best explanation of Modern Monetary Theory
- 10: The common ownership self-assessed tax (COST)
May 2020
Apr 2020
- 24: Brave
- 19: Books read Q4 2019
- 15: Prepping for bitcoiners
Jan 2020
- 12: Cummings on mentality, education, and institutions
- 07: von Neumann on science
- 01: 2019 reflections & 2020 aspirations
Dec 2019
Oct 2019
- 21: Books read Q2 and Q3 2019
- 14: Steamed guano – the real driver of our industrial prosperity
- 13: (a)
Sep 2019
Jul 2019
- 29: Inbox When Ready
- 28: What supplements do you use?
- 21: ITT in the wild
- 05: Magic(k)
Jun 2019
- 21: Ego is a process
- 16: The jetliner
- 02: Who owns the park?
May 2019
- 31: Excerpt 5 from "White Fragility"
- 30: The ambassador and the engineer
- 29: Achmiz on the drowning child
- 28: Excerpt 4 from "White Fragility"
- 27: Excerpt 3 from "White Fragility"
- 26: Huxley on mental arterio-sclerosis
- 25: Excerpt 2 from "White Fragility"
- 24: Excerpt from "White Fragility"
- 23: Krishnamurti on right livelihood 2
- 22: Rubenstein on wonder
- 21: Romeo on living in expensive places
- 19: Habryka on philosopher kings
- 18: Krishnamurti on right livelihood
- 02: Books read Q1 2019
Apr 2019
- 23: Romer on the economics of objects vs. the economics of ideas
- 19: What's the point of Huxley's Island?
- 16: Framework: complex value & situational awareness
- 12: Constructed vs. constructive consciousness
- 11: Science: slowing down or tackling bigger problems?
- 10: The hard work of translation
- 09: Better words for happiness
- 08: Harden your browser
- 03: Surveillance capitalism: 1,000 contracts
- 02: Stegenga on medical nihilism
Mar 2019
- 31: Surveillance capitalism: definitions
- 30: Altruistic action is dispassionate
- 29: Microcosmographia excerpt
- 21: China notes
Feb 2019
- 24: Has your EA worldview changed over time?
- 23: "Moral Mazes" 3
- 22: Do the enlightened doubt?
- 21: More from "Moral Mazes"
- 20: Basic anxiety is happening all the time
- 19: Jordan Peterson on universities
- 18: Aphorisms for meditation
- 17: Naval twitter bombs
- 16: Excerpt from "Moral Mazes"
- 15: Who has the highest potential to change the world?
- 14: Traffic defector
- 13: Jordan Peterson on Exodus
- 12: Ray Dalio's advice to a 20-year-old
- 11: Four major tools
- 07: Being a bank
- 06: Choruses from The Rock
- 05: Greenberg on the placebo effect & healer-patient alliances
- 04: What we talk about when we talk about life satisfaction
Jan 2019
- 30: The useless
- 29: When the shoe fits
- 28: Books read Q4 2018
- 23: If slow-takeoff AGI is somewhat likely, don't give now
- 22: Lorde on mythical norms
- 17: Watchmen trilemma
- 01: 2018 reflections & 2019 aspirations
Dec 2018
- 30: 2018 in review: analytic
- 29: 2018 in review: state of the blog
- 16: Giving more won't make you happier: distilled
- 14: Giving more won't make you happier
- 13: AI god scenario
- 12: Nye on order
- 11: Smartphones in popular 2018 movies
- 10: Dorsey does vipassana
- 09: Free Solo
- 08: Worth keeping
- 07: The tyranny of structurelessness
- 06: Prescient quote
- 03: Perfectly round circles
- 01: Synanon
Nov 2018
- 30: Opioid deaths
- 29: Memetic tribes
- 28: Rumi: a children's game
- 27: Fear and resentment
- 26: De dicto and de re
- 25: Security mindset
- 24: The Great Brahma
- 23: A few drinks aren't that bad
- 22: Angry uncle bot
- 21: Beijing social credit
- 17: Penny universities & the European discovery of coffee
- 16: Email newsletters
- 15: Krishnamurti bomb
- 08: Jordan Peterson on hockey & iterated games
- 06: Explain Foucault to me
- 05: When laziness is optimal
- 04: Naval bombs 6
- 03: Naval bombs 5
- 02: Naval bombs 4
- 01: Naval bombs 3
Oct 2018
- 31: Naval bombs 2
- 30: Coase's question
- 29: Naval bombs
- 27: Illustrated guide to a PhD
- 25: Kibbutz 2
- 24: World's longest sea bridge
- 23: Kibbutz
- 22: Supernormal stimuli
- 21: Books read Q3 2018
- 20: Daily aspirin increases risk of a bleeding event
- 19: Cynefin
- 18: Get lunch to defeat siloes (sometimes)
- 17: Casual sex differential
- 10: Nazis listening to Big Ben
- 09: Tribes to nations to something new
- 06: George Washington's slaves
- 05: Happiness
- 04: Free won't
- 03: Trolls in the grievance academy
Sep 2018
- 30: Lying about your age, past and present
- 29: There's something good in coffee...
- 28: Marriage as a capstone
- 27: Harari on liberal humanism and life science
- 26: Bloom on cruelty & dehumanization
- 22: People are having less sex
- 17: Does knuckle cracking lead to arthritis of the fingers?
- 15: Hyperprolific
- 14: Finding work happy-making
- 13: Three things, interlinked
- 12: Hazony on the most effective indoctrination
- 11: College students have grown more narcissistic
- 10: Hazony on political rationalism
- 06: Fire discourse
- 05: Billionaire contingency plans
- 04: Life as herding cats
Aug 2018
- 31: On measuring happiness
- 25: No amount of alcohol improves health
- 24: Office sharks
- 23: Help others to help yourself
- 22: Cowen on having independent opinions
- 21: Political correctness & success
- 18: Mao & Trump
- 12: Apologists vs. historians
- 09: The agricultural revolution: story #2
- 08: The agricultural revolution: story #1
- 06: Michelle Dawson's production function
- 05: The bad reason New York didn't crack down on money laundering
- 04: Michelle Dawson on autistic intelligence
- 03: Harari on myths
- 02: And yet...
- 01: Consider longboarding
Jul 2018
- 25: Now is all you have
- 23: Arthur Brooks recommends taking a politics cleanse
- 21: Arthur Brooks on four jobs of the CEO
- 20: Puritans didn't like wasting time
- 20: Don't take the existence of wealth for granted
- 18: "Existential risk" in Chinese
- 17: Are you Thrasymachus?
- 16: Comment thread about cost-effect skepticism
- 13: Bug-out bag refresh
- 12: Jaron Lanier on wolf mentalities in social media
- 10: Tension between autonomy & care in modernity
- 07: Books read Q2 2018
- 03: Why I'm skeptical of cost-effectiveness analysis
- 01: What's important is what you're reading
Jun 2018
- 29: Puritan marriages were surprisingly liberal
- 14: On deciding what to do
- 13: Theranos: the religion
- 12: Big firm life
May 2018
- 09: Caplan on the autodidact's curse
- 06: Some things I've learned
- 04: Jonah Goldberg on capitalism
- 03: Dr. Gabor Maté on the opioid crisis
- 01: Can you pay for unconditional love?
Apr 2018
- 25: Books read Q1 2018
- 21: Rehabilitating Khrushchev
- 18: Tim Ferriss on lovingkindness meditation
- 17: Delayed Gratification
Mar 2018
- 31: War with Russia means war with China
- 30: 00000000
- 15: But where are the bones?
- 08: One good man at the Phnom Pehn Water Authority
- 07: A life you will want to wake up to
- 05: Jerry Brown at the gates of Tassajara
- 02: Harari on meditation
- 01: Andrew Sullivan on the opioid crisis
Feb 2018
- 26: Shunryu Suzuki on life as a movie
- 22: Jeff Warren on "Expanding Mind"
- 15: Doing good while clueless
- 09: Charles Mann's production function
Jan 2018
- 28: Books read Q4 2017
- 23: Hubspot's diversity data
- 22: Kabat-Zinn on stepping out of time
- 20: Excerpts from the introduction of "not always so"
- 19: Shunryu Suzuki on evil desires
- 18: Still Drinking's job advice
- 17: Ross Douthat's production function
- 16: Thiel on retaining employees
- 15: A strong claim in "Never Split the Difference"
- 11: David Foster Wallace on 3
- 09: Excerpts from a David Foster Wallace television interview
- 06: Shuffering and shmiling
- 05: 9/9/6
- 04: Two lenses on working in tech
- 03: BART as a tool for focus
- 02: Reality Winner and the surveillance state
- 01: How tractable is cluelessness?
Dec 2017
- 28: 2017 in review: narrative (sorta)
- 27: 2017 in review: analytic
- 21: “Just take the expected value” – a possible reply to concerns ...
- 19: The Social Security Trust Fund
- 18: Someone still receives a soldier's pension from the Civil War
- 10: Buddha epigraph misattribution
- 07: Definitional example of a Schelling point
- 04: Bitcoin 2025
Nov 2017
- 29: Cowen on reducing complacency in your children
- 28: Salzberg's spoon of salt
- 24: What consequences?
- 08: Gopnik on Buddhism
- 06: Scott Adams' persuasion tips
- 01: Try your phone on grayscale
Oct 2017
- 31: What to do about consequentialist cluelessness?
- 30: Good article on male loneliness
- 29: Eliezer on epistemic modesty
- 28: Excerpts from "The Gulag Archipelago"
- 26: A terrifying sample of nuclear close calls
- 23: Skopje statue
- 19: The Italo-Nigerian sex fashion pipeline
- 04: Books read Q3 2017
Sep 2017
Aug 2017
- 23: Nu
Jul 2017
- 30: Vegas dispatch
- 23: Solnit on negative capability
- 21: Gawande & Sasse on hiring
- 20: Scholarly production functions
- 09: Books read Q2 2017
May 2017
Apr 2017
Feb 2017
Jan 2017
- 30: Books read Q4 2016
- 24: Freewrite rescued from my email drafts: 4
- 19: Freewrite rescued from my email drafts: 3
- 17: Freewrite rescued from my email drafts: 2
- 15: Freewrite rescued from my email drafts: 1
Dec 2016
Nov 2016
- 20: Joint statement from California legislative leaders on result of ...
- 09: President Trump
- 05: Should we give now or later? (continued)
- 02: Should we give now or later?
Oct 2016
- 29: Misalignment of consequentialism and intuition
- 22: Black Mirror: Nosedive
- 08: Books read Q3 2016
- 07: How much do I need to save to retire early?
Sep 2016
- 25: Motorcycling: is it worth the risk?
- 09: Passages I particularly enjoyed in "The Seven Storey Mountain"
- 07: Lifehack
Aug 2016
- 29: When akrasia crosses with depression
- 15: Reflection on my time at GiveWell
- 14: Nanodegree postmortem
- 03: Excerpt from "One Man's Wilderness"
Jul 2016
Jun 2016
May 2016
Apr 2016
- 25: Revisions to "Trump overvalued"
- 23: Trump overvalued
- 23: Longform read Q1 2016
- 10: Books read Q1 2016
Mar 2016
Feb 2016
- 28: A new daily schedule
- 15: A more serious commitment to mindfulness, and a relevant paradox
- 07: A prediction market bet against Sanders
Jan 2016
- 23: Putting a bug-out bag together
- 17: Review of "The Hateful Eight"
- 13: Longform read Q4 2015
- 10: Books read Q4 2015
Dec 2015
- 20: Heuristics for evaluating performance
- 10: Two quotes from "The House I Live In"
- 03: Lost time
- 02: Migrating to Pelican
Oct 2015
Sep 2015
- 29: The fading of older relatives
- 22: Navigating the death of older relatives, II
- 19: Navigating the death of older relatives
- 03: Framework for thinking about performance
Jul 2015
- 26: Research methodology for a pseudostatistical analysis of ...
- 19: Radical open period
- 09: Reading list Q2 2015
Jun 2015
- 28: 2014-2015 year in review
- 19: You should read this
- 08: How to get started as a Bay Area motorcyclist
- 03: How many productive hours do I have remaining?
- 01: Min Kamp
May 2015
Apr 2015
Mar 2015
- 24: Allowance
- 11: Ode to the Caffe Mediterraneum
- 10: Reading for quantity
- 02: Couple thoughts on organics
Feb 2015
Jan 2015
- 24: Maps
- 19: Things I found on the internet
- 07: The problem with meaning
- 05: (latter part of) 2014 reading list
Dec 2014
- 29: Crash course to the current world
- 18: Seasons greetings
- 14: Abridged, dramatized account of a car ride conversation
- 09: Another bit from the internet
- 08: Overheard in Maseru
Nov 2014
- 30: Tinder
- 24: True Detective, ep. 1
- 17: Computer?
- 09: Where blogging falls
Oct 2014
- 30: citizenfour
- 26: Form follows function