A cute conceptual corollary to risk is not uncertainty is, unpredictability is not randomness. There can be unpredictable events that are not random, and randomness that is not unpredictable.

The dojo spreads ideas by appealing to authority, or Ethos.

Patreon is now basically a payday lender.

Client/server models of any kind of social organization are typically objectionable on the basis of fragility, single points of failure, lack of feedback, and simple unfairness: Who gets to be the server? Who guards the guards? Finance now has an aesthetically minded design that patently doesn’t work, and what’s more, nobody seems to be bothered th

Lest we risk being misunderstood, we should be absolutely clear upfront that energy consumption is synonymous with human flourishing, probably more so than any other single economic indicator.

The first direct use of the phrase “social capital” has been attributed to Lyda Judson Hanifan in his 1916 essay, “The Rural School Community Center”: In the use of the phrase social capital, I make no reference to the usual acceptation of the term capital, except in a figurative sense. I do not refer to real estate, or to personal property or to c

Bitcoin mining will never siphon away power that would otherwise go to some other activity deemed entirely subjectively by objectors to be “more worthwhile” because anything anybody deems even remotely worthwhile will outbid miners.

Money is an information system that records and updates who has done work that is valued by others, such that credit can be universalized and socially scaled.

We will evaluate the evolution of fighting using three settings: the Movie Set, the Dojo, and the Octagon. We will loosely link each with the three ancient Greek modes of persuasion: Pathos or emotion, Ethos or authority, and Logos or reason, and three different ways of learning: inspiration, rote, and praxis.