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It is perhaps on the political Right that such ideas are most forcefully expressed today. Lasch emphasised that his new typology superseded the political binary, but fantasies of simple agrarian living, unprocessed food, and escape from modern technology now strike many as “conservative”. But whether its politics are coded as “Left” or “Right”,... See more

Blake Smith • What Christopher Lasch Got Wrong

As an introvert, I deeply value alone time, and I often feel the loneliest when I’m with other people

Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness

Søren Kierkegaard: “To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”

Taking the Leap

wisdom 📜

The normal course of politics is various coalitions of elites and populace, each drawing from their own power bases. A normal political party, like a normal anything else, has elite leaders, analysts, propagandists, and managers, plus populace foot soldiers. Then there's an election, and sometimes our elites get in, and sometimes your elites get

Richard Hanania • Why is Everything Liberal?

The world of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory introduce a different conception of what things are though. It turns out that elementary particles can’t be thought of as individual ‘things’ which have a volume. In fact, if particles did have a volume, physics wouldn’t work! We would end up with "surfaces" of electrons behaving in an... See more

An Intuitive Guide to Maxwell’s Equations

Mastery is the best goal because the rich can't buy it, the impatient can't rush it, the privileged can't inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work.

― Derek Sivers

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instrumentalism is “the view that theories are merely instruments for predicting observable phenomena or systematizing observation reports.”

Antirealism Will Not Save the DSM From Empirical Inadequacy

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On Inboxes

I have two conceptual inboxes.

First one, inbox.md , is where the most interesting links end up, together with my random thoughts, waiting for a weekly review. I mainly append to that file through iOS shortcut. I can quickly share a twitter link, or jot a quick note in drafts.

Second one is a bit more convoluted. Sometimes during the day... See more

Memex Dreams

But we didn’t really get that. We got, I guess, sparkling autocomplete — a fancy chatbot that can string words together in the most inoffensive people-pleasing customer-service voice you’ve ever heard.

The result is something I adamantly do not want to interact with. I do not want to be exposed to LLM output at any time. It’s noise , and I feel like... See more