Alex Dobrenko

ello, and welcome to Decoder . I’m Hank Green: I am a science guy, I help run an educational media company called Complexly, and I am also a big fan of this podcast.

I am not, however, the editor-in-chief of The Verge . But Nilay Patel is, and Decoder is Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. One of those problems is that one of the best... See more

1/? the (abridged) story of Curt Herzstark, the brilliant Viennese engineer who invented an incredibly complex handheld mechanical calculator in the Buchenwald concentration camp

I am angered by so much in the world, but then I’m extremely curious about what the opposite might be. I seek out the opposite of what angers me, and I try to amplify it in my work.

We need to find the minimum viable scaffolding to get our work started and then focus on doing the work from there, making little adjustments as we go.

No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.

At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly... See more