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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…
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June 2024
What is meditation for?
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Jun 27
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May 2024
Dangerous protocols
After the early crypto boom of 2017, I spent a few years dabbling at its edges.
May 9
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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
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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
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November 2023
The Hypnotized Society
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Nov 16, 2023
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September 2023
Glimpsing God
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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