As for the project itself, the tongue-in-cheek tagline I’ve been using is “Dwarkesh meets Ezra Klein but a girl”: a solo newsletter-podcast on technology, politics, and culture. There are some specific topics I’m especially eager to dive deep on (and even do proper reporting!8), but I want to make space for plans to change in the next month of... See more
Earlier this year, I quietly started a grants program to experiment with alternative capital products (think grants, fellowships, advances, etc)
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South Korean-German philosopher Byung-Chul Han has developed a useful approach to think about different ways of spending and thinking about time online. Han outlines 3 distinct understandings of time: mythical time, historical time and atomised time.
Mythical time
For Han, mythical time is a time that is full of meaning that transcends the present... See more
Take a coniferous forest. The hierarchy in scale of pine needle, tree crown, patch, stand, whole forest, and biome is also a time hierarchy. The needle changes within a year, the crown over several years, the patch over many decades, the stand over a couple of centuries, the forest over a thousand years, and the biome over ten thousand years. The... See more
lol lowkey reminds me of small tweaks in software resulting in big change Dx
There will be future crack-ups and future attempts at radical reform and the possibility of great accomplishments in our time. The current settlement is too sick to be sustainable. But the crucial ingredient that will make the difference will be some new class of elites with a discipline of craft capable of actually achieving the great things you... See more
Traditional flexicurity assumes permanent, full-time employment. However, contractual flexibility—part-time, gig, and platform work—now accounts for 30% of Danish jobs79. These workers often lack access to dagpenge or union protections, creating a “two-tier” labor market.... See more
And yet China is becoming a more repressive place over time, as its power grows. The government is building hundreds of new detention facilities all across the country for the emperor’s political opponents. The civil society that began to flourish in previous decades has been increasingly ground into nothingness. The bargain in which the state... See more