Latest Posts
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Weaponised Autism as the Font of Human Creativity
What makes humans special? How is it that we are able to unleash the energy of the atom, while our hominid ancestors gather dust in the natural history museum?
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Book Review: The Beginning of Infinity
Pound-for-pound The Beginning of Infinity has to be the densest collection of batshit-crazy ideas I've ever come across.
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I Miss You
We don't talk much these days but we go way back. So I'm feeling kinda bummed about how I permanently and irrevocably lost any way of contacting you. Whoops!
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The Best of the Best Books I Read in 2022
I read exactly one generalist nonfiction book all year, and fell in love with the short story instead. Here are my favourite reads.
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Keto Experiment Results
I mentally categorised keto as just another trendy, stupidly-restrictive diet. Then I realised I was thinking about it wrong.
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Is Crypto Bullshit? Calling My Shots
Nothing in this arena can be taken at face value, which makes it unusually fertile ground for battle-testing your own critical thinking skills.
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I Aten't Dead
My initial impulse was to delete the blog, de-list the book, and generally disappear quietly into the ether.
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The Best of the Best Books I Read in 2020
Over the last couple of years, my reading time has mostly been chewed up by research for my own book.
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Why Bitcoin is Not That Stupid
No, not even at these apparently ridiculous prices. Not even when financial illiterates are making grandiose claims about where it'll end up.
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10 Principles of Optionality For an Uncertain World
What is optionality? If you want a thorough answer, check out the big juicy book I spent the last couple of years writing.
