reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
Climbing out of the rabbit hole
docs.google.coman honest reflection from Yancey Strickler on stepping out of the crypto rabbit hole.
On Human Enterprise | Blog Homepage
onhumanenterprise.com
While there are arguments for and against the impact of the individual – Carlyle vs. Tolstoy – we all benefit from taking an optimistic view of this question and acting as if individuals can make a very big difference.
The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
english.elpais.com
The Rising Premium for Life, Part 1
substack.com
Value capture occurs when an agent’s values are rich and subtle; they enter a social environment that presents simplified — typically quantified — versions of those val-ues; and those simplified articulations come to dominate their practical reasoning. Examples include becoming motivated by FitBit’s step counts, Twitter Likes and Re-tweets,... See more
PhilPapers
excellent work by C. Thi Nguyen
On Being a Good Newsletterer
craigmod.com
On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.
asletaiwan.org