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For some things Harvard suffices; this blog is for the rest.

[Featured] Psychology, a Failed Discipline
[Featured] The Religion of Science And Its Consequences
[Featured] Fake History And The Real Gandhi
[Featured] Silicon Valley Bank, Dead of Maturity Mismatch
[Featured] A Skeptical Perspective on Quantum Computing
[Featured] Breaking: Elon Musk is Not Stupid
[Featured] Why Nuclear War Probabilities Are Useless
2025/03/20 Announcing: Interesting Reads
2024/10/31 The Charter City Problem: Lessons from Próspera
2024/10/02 No, You Can’t Model That
2024/09/30 Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
2024/03/14 We Used To Eat A Lot More Without Becoming Obese
2024/03/02 Journalism is Broken, but so is Alternative Media
2024/01/17 The Problem is Not Plagiarism, but Cargo Cult Science
2023/10/10 How to Learn From What Didn’t Happen
2023/04/09 Why I Didn’t Invest in Substack
2023/03/10 Predicting Future Knowledge
2023/01/23 My 10 Favorite Books of 2022
2023/01/13 Beyond Good Intentions
2022/12/18 A Decentralized Network is Not a State
2022/11/19 FTX & SBF: Ordinarily Dishonest Journalism
2022/11/07 You Desire Distractions
2022/10/02 The Truth Will Cost You Dearly
2022/05/20 To Fix The World, Fix Philadelphia
2022/01/19 What is Mathematics, really?
2021/04/27 On Wasting Time
2021/04/22 Cloud Countries, without the warm glow
2020/11/22 The Purpose of Writing
2020/09/01 Bitcoin - A Short Primer
2020/07/08 Modesty Kills Excellence
2020/06/17 The End of Gold
2020/05/17 School-Think
2020/04/20 An Introduction to Ergodicity
2020/04/10 The Weirdness of Quantum Random Walks
2020/03/29 Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money
2020/03/22 Consuming News is Harmful
2020/03/01 Bitcoin’s Social Antifragility
2020/02/20 Mass Adoption of Bitcoin's Values
2020/01/26 Climate Change and the Risk of Stagnation
2020/01/16 No Rules For Reading Books
2020/01/11 The Death of Intellectual Curiosity

[Featured] Psychology, a Failed Discipline
[Featured] The Religion of Science And Its Consequences
[Featured] Fake History And The Real Gandhi
[Featured] Silicon Valley Bank, Dead of Maturity Mismatch
[Featured] A Skeptical Perspective on Quantum Computing
[Featured] Breaking: Elon Musk is Not Stupid
[Featured] Why Nuclear War Probabilities Are Useless
2025/03/20 Announcing: Interesting Reads
2024/10/31 The Charter City Problem: Lessons from Próspera
2024/10/02 No, You Can’t Model That
2024/09/30 Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
2024/03/14 We Used To Eat A Lot More Without Becoming Obese
2024/03/02 Journalism is Broken, but so is Alternative Media
2024/01/17 The Problem is Not Plagiarism, but Cargo Cult Science
2023/10/10 How to Learn From What Didn’t Happen
2023/04/09 Why I Didn’t Invest in Substack
2023/03/10 Predicting Future Knowledge
2023/01/23 My 10 Favorite Books of 2022
2023/01/13 Beyond Good Intentions
2022/12/18 A Decentralized Network is Not a State
2022/11/19 FTX & SBF: Ordinarily Dishonest Journalism
2022/11/07 You Desire Distractions
2022/10/02 The Truth Will Cost You Dearly
2022/05/20 To Fix The World, Fix Philadelphia
2022/01/19 What is Mathematics, really?
2021/04/27 On Wasting Time
2021/04/22 Cloud Countries, without the warm glow
2020/11/22 The Purpose of Writing
2020/09/01 Bitcoin - A Short Primer
2020/07/08 Modesty Kills Excellence
2020/06/17 The End of Gold
2020/05/17 School-Think
2020/04/20 An Introduction to Ergodicity
2020/04/10 The Weirdness of Quantum Random Walks
2020/03/29 Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money
2020/03/22 Consuming News is Harmful
2020/03/01 Bitcoin’s Social Antifragility
2020/02/20 Mass Adoption of Bitcoin's Values
2020/01/26 Climate Change and the Risk of Stagnation
2020/01/16 No Rules For Reading Books
2020/01/11 The Death of Intellectual Curiosity