Nov
03
Who Reads the Internet?
I'm at the Novitāte conference this week, so in lieu of this week's Frequency Analysis, here&
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Nov
03
External Mediation
If here could be anywhere, why is everybody trying to make it there? The previous piece on complacency ended with
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Oct
20
Frequency Analysis #13: War Prophet, Cyber Appeals and AI Attention
Two things you can count on to always change are technologies and seasons. The dynamism is built in from the
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Oct
20
Complacency, Comfort and Conflict
Corrupt leadership, failing institutions, a depraved culture bereft of ethical and moral virtues – this is how last week's
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Oct
13
Frequency Analysis #12: Moment of Silence
The news in Israel and Gaza is too terrible to write about without some distance, so this week, instead of
Oct
12
Supplement Faith With Virtue, And Virtue With Knowledge
If you're reading this, it's likely that you are the type of person who has an
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Oct
06
Frequency Analysis #11: Governance, interpretability and awkward situations
Going into a long holiday weekend here in the U.S. so I'm keeping this week's
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Oct
06
A Being That Goes on Two Legs and Is Ungrateful
We now turn to the question of whether growth itself is wrong and humans are bad. The economic stagnation that
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Sep
29
Frequency Analysis #10: Bottlenecks, building automation hack and Baltic unicorns
Here's a paper via Marginal Revolution and Alexander Berger by Ian Dew-Becker on Tail Risk in Production Networks.
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Sep
28
What Fools These Mortals Be
In our discussion of stagnation so far, we have focused on economic, natural and cultural problems that have arisen over
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