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2026 7

  1. You can't use it without becoming like me
  2. Let’s Own the Term “Elitism”
  3. James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State
  4. The Blast Radius Principle
  5. Life at the Frontlines of Demographic Collapse
  6. Eunification: a Historical Perspective
  7. Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance

2025 22

  1. Erasmus: Social Engineering at Scale
  2. EU explained in 10 minutes
  3. Gnashing of Teeth
  4. Emil the Moose
  5. Notes from European Progress Conference
  6. EU and Monopoly on Violence
  7. The Dutch are Working Four Days a Week
  8. Immigration to Poland
  9. European Links (15.08.25)
  10. Civil Service: a Victim or a Villain?
  11. The Cult of Pain
  12. The Way of a Skeptic
  13. How Epistemic Collapse Looks from Inside
  14. Meditations on Doge
  15. Laugencroissant
  16. European Links (18.05.25)
  17. From Comments on Accountability Sinks
  18. European Links (07.05.25)
  19. The Ukraine War and the Kill Market
  20. European Links (30.04.25)
  21. Accountability Sinks
  22. Per Tribalismum ad Astra

2024 32

  1. European Progress Conference
  2. Slave Morality: A place for every man and every man in his place
  3. Referendum Mechanics in a Marketplace of Ideas
  4. Music in the AI World
  5. SRE's review of Democracy
  6. Agency in Politics
  7. Antitrust as Controlled Creative Destruction
  8. Controlled Creative Destruction
  9. The Wisdom of Living for 200 Years
  10. Hemingway Case
  11. Dumbing down
  12. On Stateless Societies
  13. Jean Monnet: The Guerilla Bureaucrat
  14. On the Nature of Reputation
  15. The Human Condition
  16. Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (III.)
  17. Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (II.)
  18. Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (I.)
  19. In Search of Slack
  20. Hull: An alternative to shell that I'll never have time to implement
  21. Muqaata'a by Fahad Himsi (I.)
  22. One-person Universe
  23. What Can Philosophers Learn from Programmers?
  24. Anti-social punishment
  25. The Eb
  26. On Interstellar Communication
  27. Inadequate Equilibria vs. Governance of the Commons
  28. Research: Rescuers during the Holocaust
  29. Suicide by Culture
  30. Structured Concurrency
  31. Reusability Trap
  32. Moving to substack