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2026 1

  1. On Hair as Memento Mori

2025 7

  1. Links & What I've Been Reading Q1 2025
  2. Echoes
  3. How to be Good at Dating
  4. The Artist Imitates the Art: On Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet
  5. The Harem of an Autist
  6. The Alchemist and His Quicksilver
  7. The Best and Worst Books I Read in 2023 & 2024

2023 4

  1. On the Pleb Filter
  2. The Best and Worst Books I Read in 2022
  3. The Myth of Austerity in the UK
  4. Links & What I've Been Reading Q4 2022

2022 8

  1. Forecasting Forecasting
  2. Against Effective Altruism
  3. Links & What I've Been Reading Q3 2022
  4. Links & What I've Been Reading Q2 2022
  5. Links & What I've Been Reading Q1 2022
  6. The Best and Worst Books I Read in 2021
  7. Aspects of the Seeker
  8. Links & What I've Been Reading Q4 2021

2021 16

  1. How I Made $10k Predicting Which Studies Will Replicate
  2. Links & What I've Been Reading Q3 2021
  3. Book Review: The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
  4. Against Caring About Individual Bad Studies
  5. Links & What I've Been Reading Q2 2021
  6. On the Pension Apocalypse
  7. Returns to Scale in Broken Windows
  8. Highlights from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  9. Book Review: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  10. Links & What I've Been Reading Q1 2021
  11. Two Paths to the Future
  12. Princeton Cemetery
  13. Urne-Buriall in Tlön and the Sedulous Ape
  14. The Best and Worst Books I Read in 2020
  15. Unjustified True Disbelief
  16. Are Experts Real?

2020 14

  1. Links & What I've Been Reading Q4 2020
  2. Book Review: The Idiot
  3. Metascience and Philosophy
  4. When the Worst Man in the World Writes a Masterpiece
  5. Links & What I've Been Reading Q3 2020
  6. What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers
  7. How Many Undetected Frauds in Science?
  8. Book Review: Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
  9. Links Q2 2020
  10. Memetic Defoundation
  11. Links Jan-Feb 2020
  12. Reading Notes: Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I: The Structures of Everyday Life
  13. The Best and Worst Books I Read in 2019
  14. Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him