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In 2021, I started 23 books: 20 non-fiction, 2 biographies and 1 fiction. Here are my 6 best.
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Epistemic updates on crypto and NFTs.
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A top student of her high school class is approaching graduation, and she must choose what to do next year. Only she is hunted by feelings of doubt and…
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Why do we fear missing out? The most basic theory goes a bit like this: We are social animals. Social animals experience evolutionary pressure to…
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Many years ago I wrote a piece about the current state of political affairs. In there, I argued that it is very hard to build a political majority due…
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Premises are assertions taken at face value that serve as the bedrock for other ideas. They are, however, most useful to me as a tool to uncover new…
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Anthony Mackie rants about the movie industry: There are no movie stars anymore. Anthony Mackie is not a movie star, the Falcon is a movie star. […] The…
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Say, you put the chance of God existing at 75%. Your number might be higher but the key is that it can’t never be 100% because you can’t prove…
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There’s a saying that stipulates you only need one correct argument to be right. If you need more it probably means you either are wrong or need to…
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Well, this happened. The world is on lockdown and me with it, so I figured I might as well try to bring back an old good habit of mine: writing. This…
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The recent kerkuffle around the US backing the suspension of Covid vaccine patents got me thinking about how we’ve become numb to supply woes.1…
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