Sitemap - 2024 - Manuscriptions

๐ŸŽ‚ A birthday request: share what you like

๐Ÿ“š Strategy & a pilot named Boyd (Part II: Business)

๐Ÿ“š Strategy & a pilot named Boyd (Part I: Big Picture)

๐ŸŒฒ Heuristics for Hanging on to Things

๐Ÿ’š On milestones and friends looking for love & money

๐ŸŽ“ On the origins of the merchant class

๐ŸŽ“ On cohort-based sociopolitical systems in East Africa

๐ŸŒฒ On what it means to not have time

๐ŸŒฒ On finding relevant notes when you need them

๐ŸŽ“ On feasts, cilantro, and cultural norms around food

๐ŸŒฒ Themed logs are still more useful than daily notes

๐Ÿค– Where do people hang out online, these days?

๐Ÿ“š Micro reviews of articles on stupidity & surviving crises

๐ŸŒฒ On taste and paying attention to who you're influenced by

๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ Theater ads are depressing, but Deadpool was good

๐Ÿ“š Fremen walking into the desert to die are wasting their water

๐ŸŽ“ On commitment and burning your ships behind you

๐Ÿค– Oz, Ender's Game & my favorite e-ink devices

๐ŸŽ“ Excellence vs. egalitarianism in human societies

๐ŸŒฒ When computers are less efficient than analog methods

๐Ÿ“š Advice from Parenting Books, for Everyone

๐Ÿ™ˆ Downsides of surrounding yourself with brilliant, skilled people

๐ŸŒฒ On prioritizing problem-solving over perfection

๐ŸŒฒ The Konik Method For Maintaining Sane Task Lists

๐ŸŒฒ Prompt engineering gave me empathy for my bosses

๐ŸŽ“ Curious Disasters: Failed Marriages in Folklore

๐ŸŽ“ On the Difficulty of Fantasy Cartography

๐ŸŒฒ Secondary sources are pretty great, actually

๐ŸŽ“ Currency, Coins, & Curmudgeonly Choices