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2025 4

  1. 26 Useful Concepts for 2026
  2. How Social Media Shortens Your Life
  3. Avoiding the Automation of your Heart
  4. 25 Useful Ideas for 2025

2024 7

  1. Thoughts on Luigi Mangione
  2. How Empathy Makes Us Cruel and Irrational
  3. The Rise of Neotoddlerism
  4. 23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
  5. 30 Useful Concepts (Spring 2024)
  6. Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius
  7. Why Everything is Becoming a Game

2023 16

  1. 30 Useful Concepts (Autumn 2023)
  2. Debunking Lies About Israel
  3. Overchoice and How to Avoid it
  4. How to Find Good Information
  5. Why You Are An NPC
  6. Why Are We The Way We Are?
  7. The Pathologization Pandemic
  8. 40 Useful Concepts (Summer 2023)
  9. The Cure to Misinformation is More Misinformation
  10. A Conversation with Chris Williamson
  11. 40 Useful Concepts (Spring 2023)
  12. 10 Ways to Avoid Being Fooled
  13. Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things
  14. 10 Reasons Your Beliefs Are Probably Bullshit
  15. TikTok is a Time Bomb
  16. The Devil's Digital Dictionary

2022 14

  1. The 10 Best Ideas I Learned in 2022
  2. Dramageddon: The Virtual Civil War
  3. 40 Useful Concepts (Winter 2022)
  4. Stoicism: The Ancient Remedy to the Modern Age
  5. The Perils of Audience Capture
  6. Why I Stopped Being A Leftist
  7. Rage Against the Touchscreen
  8. Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers
  9. The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
  10. Escaping the Cascade
  11. The Imp of the Perverse
  12. The Opinion Pageant
  13. The Electronic Starfield
  14. My Story