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2026 3

  1. The Internet Condom, a Hopeful AI Future
  2. Vaultara – Daily News Intelligence Reports
  3. A PDF to EPUB Converter that actually works

2025 1

  1. Announcing: Interesting Reads

2024 7

  1. The Charter City Problem: Lessons from Próspera
  2. No, You Can’t Model That
  3. Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
  4. We Used To Eat A Lot More Without Becoming Obese
  5. Journalism is Broken, but so is Alternative Media
  6. Psychology, a Failed Discipline
  7. The Problem is Not Plagiarism, but Cargo Cult Science

2023 9

  1. The Religion of Science And Its Consequences
  2. How to Learn From What Didn’t Happen
  3. Fake History And The Real Gandhi
  4. Why I Didn’t Invest in Substack
  5. Silicon Valley Bank, Dead of Maturity Mismatch
  6. Predicting Future Knowledge
  7. A Skeptical Perspective on Quantum Computing
  8. My 10 Favorite Books of 2022
  9. Beyond Good Intentions

2022 8

  1. A Decentralized Network is Not a State
  2. FTX & SBF: Ordinarily Dishonest Journalism
  3. You Desire Distractions
  4. Breaking: Elon Musk is Not Stupid
  5. The Truth Will Cost You Dearly
  6. To Fix The World, Fix Philadelphia
  7. Why Nuclear War Probabilities Are Useless
  8. What is Mathematics, really?

2021 2

  1. On Wasting Time
  2. Cloud Countries, without the warm glow

2020 14

  1. The Purpose of Writing
  2. Bitcoin - A Short Primer
  3. Modesty Kills Excellence
  4. The End of Gold
  5. School-Think
  6. An Introduction to Ergodicity
  7. The Weirdness of Quantum Random Walks
  8. Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money
  9. Consuming News is Harmful
  10. Bitcoin’s Social Antifragility
  11. Mass Adoption of Bitcoin's Values
  12. Climate Change and the Risk of Stagnation
  13. No Rules For Reading Books
  14. The Death of Intellectual Curiosity