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2026 3

  1. Headline economics and its recursive logic
  2. Twenty-five percent without thinking
  3. 2026 Open Inquiries

2025 26

  1. Pre, Mid, Post-Training Way of Life
  2. The only real buyer of a company is itself
  3. Tao and the art of investing in modern China
  4. Confessions of Mrs.Brown
  5. The Illusions of Barbell Theory
  6. Returning to Pace
  7. Preserving Sacredness
  8. The Art of Understanding What's Going On
  9. The Spectacle of “Building”
  10. Context is all you need
  11. AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion
  12. Infinite Playgrounds: The Building of AI-Native Worlds (Part I)
  13. Wisdom without words
  14. The personal propaganda evolution
  15. Vibecore: the economics of authenticity
  16. Bring the mind home
  17. Meditations on investing
  18. Rehearsing possible lives
  19. Above and below the LLMs
  20. People as Files
  21. Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
  22. A Guide to Timetravels
  23. All Compute Must Flow
  24. How to build an agent
  25. The Last Human Choice
  26. 2025 Open Inquiries

2021 3

  1. The New Frontier of Belonging
  2. The Illusions of Free-to-Play
  3. [FKPXLS] Brave New Decade

2020 31

  1. Embedded Education
  2. [FKPXLS] VOL.65 / Cutting down trees, just to plant new ones
  3. [FKPXLS] VOL.64 / When gods are dead, we create new ones
  4. [FKPXLS] VOL.63 / You must be taught to love me
  5. [FKPXLS] VOL.62 / Everything crumbles when we lose balance
  6. [FKPXLS] VOL.61 / Not young enough to know everything
  7. [FKPXLS] VOL.60 / Freedom that’s granted and freedom that’s earned
  8. [FKPXLS] VOL.59 / Here I stand. I can do no other.
  9. [FKPXLS] VOL.58 / Dance me to the end of love
  10. [FKPXLS] VOL.57 / It seems like what matters has changed
  11. [FKPXLS] VOL.56 / A fractured world that is beginning anew
  12. [FKPXLS] VOL.55 / Fly high, and don’t get killed
  13. [FKPXLS] SPECIAL VOLUME: JOINING PACE
  14. [FKPXLS] VOL.53 / A hedge against an early death
  15. [FKPXLS] VOL.52 / A train rushing through a lightning storm
  16. [FKPXLS] VOL.51 / How I learned to hunt a whale
  17. [FKPXLS] VOL.50 / In the long run, almost anything is possible
  18. [FKPXLS] VOL.49 / Ideas that affect us like a disaster
  19. [FKPXLS] VOL.48 / Good work done in defiance
  20. [FKPXLS] VOL.47 / We are, after all, children
  21. [FKPXLS] VOL.46 / this is us, forgetting
  22. [FKPXLS] SPECIAL VOLUME: VOICES
  23. [FKPXLS] VOL.44 / The pixel making of an American Dream
  24. [FKPXLS] VOL.43 / Do not fall asleep on the road
  25. [FKPXLS] VOL.42 / As we become the perfect storm
  26. [FKPXLS] VOL.41 / Meaning finding on the internet
  27. [FKPXLS] VOL.40 — A brave and startling truth
  28. [FKPXLS] VOL.39 — Everybody wants to build the world
  29. [FKPXLS] VOL.38 — sobering spring, radiant winter
  30. [FKPXLS] VOL.37 — What if we forget about time
  31. [FKPXLS] VOL.36 — In a world that everything counts, everybody matters

2019 20

  1. 🌈 💼 vol. 34 / on the first day of work /
  2. 🌈 🌹 vol. 33 / emotional capitalism and its discontents / future peeking thru a bot / 1k pushups a day / happiest job / ++
  3. 🌈 🖼 vol. 32 / transformation and destruction / founders as artists/ atrium for marketing / ++
  4. 🌈 ✨ vol. 31 / interim /
  5. 🌈 💌 vol. 30 / to hustle or not to hustle / where vices go / workout musings / ++
  6. 🌈 💌 vol.29 / a special letter on post-grad crisis / more meaningful work convos? / taking down borders / ++
  7. 🌈 ✨ vol.28 / recalibrate success /
  8. 🌈 🌚 vol.27 / ruined by design / arya stark slays / achieving 'radical mutuality' / ++
  9. 🌈 🗽 vol.26 / HELLO NYC / ez furnitures / ISAs / ++
  10. 🌈 💋 vol.25 / being authentic, and the fear of selling out /
  11. 🌈 🧙‍♀️vol. 24 / learning the magic of life /
  12. 🌈 💼 vol. 23 / v candid career advice / becoming thoughtful / space for escape / ++
  13. 🌈 📖 vol. 22 / story-telling is a luxury /
  14. 🌈 ✨ vol. 21 / is having a vision overrated? /
  15. 🌈 🚴🏻‍♂️ vol. 20 / living in dreams productively /
  16. 🌈 🌎 vol. 19 / this is between you and me /
  17. 🌈 💙 vol. 18 / finding love through work /
  18. 🌈 💌 vol. 17 / illusions of a college grad / a man must dream / bug books ++
  19. 🌈 💌 vol. 16 / lessons of being a bad leader
  20. 🌈 🦋 vol. 15 / driving with no windows / reframing progress / lone-wolf myth ++