Archive - Monomythical

Protecting our attention

I was rather confused when sociologist Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation, came out earlier this year, which examines the harmful effects of…

Aug 13

June 2024

What is meditation for?

Jun 27

May 2024

Dangerous protocols

After the early crypto boom of 2017, I spent a few years dabbling at its edges.

May 9

April 2024

Exploring altered states of consciousness

When researchers were trying to understand the effects of LSD in the early 1960s, a team in Toronto strapped and blindfolded their subjects in sterile…

Apr 15

February 2024

Why effective accelerationism matters

Nearly a year ago, an editor reached out to me about writing a piece on effective accelerationism, or e/acc.

Feb 12

November 2023

The Hypnotized Society

Nov 16, 2023

September 2023

I'm just coming out of the black hole of this summer, which was very writing- and research-intensive, between participating in the Summer of Protocols…

Sep 27, 2023

May 2023

Remembering GitHub's office

I was bummed when I read GitHub’s February announcement that it would permanently close its San Francisco headquarters.

May 28, 2023

The battle over tech's values

If you’ve paid attention to the news in the last decade, you’ve probably noticed a negative turn in sentiment towards the tech industry, sometimes…

May 15, 2023

April 2023

Explaining tech's notion of talent scarcity

I was recently asked to explain what it means when people say that, for example, “There are only [10-200] people in the world who can do what…

Apr 25, 2023

March 2023

A Bank of One's Own

A fun fact about startups, if you've never worked for one, is that employees don't typically get equity in the company.

Mar 11, 2023

February 2023

America's future and the network state

The geopolitical concept of hegemony is implicitly a game of keep-away: a smattering of nation states who've divided their mountains and oceans among…

Feb 22, 2023

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