Latest Posts
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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.
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Announcing Optionality, the Book: How You Can Get Involved
As many of you know, I've been working on a book project for the last few years.
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Is Blogging Worth It? A Cheap Option for Attracting Serendipity
Blogging is an endurance sport. As Deep Dish's 4th birthday approaches—a million views, a thousand comments—I have a decent sense of whether it's been worth it.
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Make Frugality Great Again!
The modern practice of frugality has become a funhouse-mirror perversion of the original virtue. What happened?
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Getting Hacked and Getting Hard
CLEARANCE SALE! VANS SHOES CHEAP! I was as surprised as anyone to hear that I'd pivoted from blogging to hawking knock-off footwear on Facebook.
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It's Such a Perfect Day
'Rise and grind' posts are cringe, but let's not toss the baby out with the essential oil-infused bathwater. What can Science TM tell us about the perfect daily routine?
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The Commonplace Book: How to Get Compound Interest on Your Ideas
The magic happens in the nooks where ideas collide and fuse, but we have to create the right conditions for recombination.
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Notes on Note Taking: How to Read a Book
At the risk of offending my favourite productivity pornographers, most of what is written about note taking spectacularly misses the point.
