Archive - Manuscriptions

📗 On Testing Hypotheses Instead of Setting Goals

A review of "Tiny Experiments" by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Mar 11 •

February 2025

🌲 On Leadership & Legacy: Shockley, Yi, & Brasidas

Lessons from people who failed at a critical thing they were trying to accomplish.

Feb 27 •

🎓 Communities who never met IRL are older than you think

Online friendships are not so very different from the Mesopotamian brotherhood of kings, or the Kula ring of the Trobriand Islanders in the Southwest…

Feb 20 •

🎓 On Agricultural Causes of Societal Catastrophes

A look at maize mosaic disease, wheat rust, the chestnut blight, brown spot disease, and the boll weevil.

Feb 13 •

🌲 AI cannot replace genuine human connection

That doesn't mean it's not incredibly useful, or economically disruptive, of course.

Feb 6 •

January 2025

December 2024

🎂 A birthday request: share what you like

Slightly belated, but even so: I'm asking for recommendations, to and from.

Dec 13, 2024 •

November 2024

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