Latest Posts
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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.
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Happiness is a Greased Pig Chase
Happiness is a greased pig chase: the harder you grab at it, the more it squirms away. Here's what the happiness research gets wrong about the good life.
