Tanuj

The web is what we make it

When we hear stories, should we be more suspicious? and what kind of stories should we be suspicious of? Again, I'm telling you it's the stories that you like the most, that you find the most rewarding, the most inspiring. The stories that don't focus on opportunity cost, or the complex, unintended consequences of human action, because that very... See more

Writing with Open Access takes the next step to reach more people by bringing the spirit of the museum to you through writing. Like visiting the museum, this project offers new ways of thinking about ideas. Unlike the museum, however, the ideas in question are your own. This makes the collection immediately personal. It creates a link between your... See more

Web3 Is Going Great is a project to track some examples of how things in the blockchains/crypto/web3 technology space aren't actually going as well as its proponents might like you to believe. The timeline tracks events in cryptocurrency and blockchain-based technologies, dating back to the beginning of 2021.

The better your vocabulary, the more stories you can chunk, the more experiences you can pattern match.

[...] it comes down to, you're not going to change people's diets. You're not going to change people's food preferences, not on any reasonable time scale. It's been tried a million times. Never works. And that meant that it's a technology problem. The way to solve the problem is to make it a losing proposition to be using this technology to produce... See more

The best interface to my brain is a relationship. That's how merging feels like. That's how I envision it.

There's a book by Christopher Booker, he claims there are really just seven types of stories. There's monster, rags to riches, quest, voyage and return, comedy, tragedy, rebirth. You don't have to agree with that list exactly, but the point is this: if you think in terms of stories, you're telling yourself the same things over and over again.