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Lessons from Team Sports

The T-Shirt Shop at the End of the World

Another Day in Paradise

For Anne Hall

The hero with 8 billion faces

Old Castle, by the river, in the middle of a forest

The Social Dilemma Dilemma

Virtualization, Forklifts, Microphones, Shipping Containers, Video Conferencing, Stethoscopes...

When You Gaze Long Into the Machine, The Machine Also Gazes Back

Advertising, IP Law, and the Invisible Hand

The Infinite Frontier as American Capitalism's Response to the Malthusian Trap

I, Backpack

Suping Up VS Code as a Markdown Notebook

Principles for Radical Tax Reform and a Universal Dividend

Speech is Free, Distribution is Not // A Tax on the Purchase of Human Attention and Political Power

History of the Capital AI and Market Failures in the Attention Economy

Napkin Modeling the US Govt "PandL" // Income Tax and Redistribution Scenarios

Narrative, Intelligence, and AI

The Emperor Has No Clothes, There is No Santa Claus, and Nothing is Rocket Science

Kinky Labor Supply and the Attention Tax

Social Systems are Computations that Minimize Uncertainty

Controlling International Trade with a 'Crypto Customs' Bureau // The End of National Labor Politics

Consciousness as Computation // Learning from Deep Learning and Information Theory

The Beautiful Struggle // The Beautiful Game

Metrics, Incrementalism, and Local Maxima

A Collection of Internet Curiosities

Free Will, Techno-Determinism, and Panache

Panem et Circenses

Techno-Industrial Alienation, Craft, and The Calculus of Form

If We Were All Buddhists, Life Would End When the Sun Burns Out

Every New Yorker Wants to Open a Restaurant

"They Say the #1 Killer of Old People is Retirement"

Charlie Kaufman on Screenwriting

Memo on Office Food

Origins of Venmo

On Liberal Arts Education

Cormac McCarthy on Vacation