Culture

Archived.

• The Grokster Decision - Ode To Thomas Jefferson
• The Path Matters
• The Taste Gap by Ira Glass
• The World According to Rene Girard
• Why is English so weirdly different from other languages?
• You and Your Research, by Richard Hamming

World.

• The Century of the Self
• The World According to Rene Girard

Taste.

• Teenage Engineering interview - on taste
• Make Something Wonderful
• The Taste Gap

Products.

• Zero to One
• Never Play to the Gallery - David Bowie
• Categorization and Willingness to Pay for New Products: The Role of Category Cues as Value Anchors
• The next big thing will start out looking like a toy

Politics

• Realpolitik
• Why the Brexit Leave campaign won - Dominic Cummings on why the Brexit leave campaign won. It is best described as postrationalism - approach to dealing with complexity that recognizes the limitations of systems and institutions in an increasingly atomized world. This post is an incredible deep-dive (30mins long) on the LEAVE campaign, his choices, outcome independence.
• The Myth of Mental Illness

Language.

• Why is English so weirdly different from other languages
• Double articulation
• Toki pona

Consciousness.

• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (podcast)

Uncategorised.

• Simulacra and simulation
• Military Mimetics
• The map is not the territory
  • On Exactitude in Science
• The Path Matters
• The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman
• Fully Automated Luxury Communism