2026/5
published:
5/5 at 4:09 PM: Maximizing Revenue vs Minimizing Cost
5/5 at 2:56 PM: Need vs Want vs Addiction
5/5 at 1:36 PM: Alignment Voting
5/5 at 12:04 PM: Dependency Graphs for Sensemaking
5/3 at 5:50 AM: Finding The Right Distance
5/1 at 11:15 PM: The Three Rules
modified:
5/1 at 3:32 AM: "Nonviolent Communication" Implies Communication Can Be Violent
5/4 at 11:37 PM: The Next Step
5/4 at 11:35 PM: Serendipity Engineering
5/2 at 5:29 AM: Discursive Stages
readings:
5/2 at 5:06 PM: Love as the axiom
5/2 at 4:54 PM: Ego two-step
5/7 at 7:30 PM: Sync Mac/PC and iOS using Syncthing + Möbius Sync
2026/4
published:
4/2 at 5:00 PM: The Next Step
4/6 at 10:00 AM: Serendipity Engineering
4/1 at 6:14 PM: Discursive Stages
4/7 at 6:14 PM: Living in the Leap
2026/3
published:
3/3 at 1:17 PM: Solving at the Level of the Problem
modified:
3/3 at 2:02 AM: Living in a Relational Microscope
readings:
3/6 at 8:12 PM: Legal historian Samuel Moyn on why human rights are not enough
3/6 at 8:06 PM: A bridge to meta-rationality vs. civilizational collapse
3/2 at 10:22 AM: Slowly Braised Short Rib Ragu (Slow Cooker, Instant Pot-friendly)
3/4 at 7:04 PM: An Ensemble in the Valleys
2026/2
readings:
2/3 at 11:58 PM: An app can be a home-cooked meal
2/3 at 10:24 PM: Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
2/4 at 10:34 AM: Research Finds Interaction With Father, Not Mother, Affects Child Health
2/2 at 10:05 PM: How I Learned Bodywork, Part 1: From Tech to Massage School
2/2 at 7:16 PM: The Best Chili Recipe {EASY RECIPE}
2026/1
published:
1/5 at 11:20 AM: "Nonviolent Communication" Implies Communication Can Be Violent
1/4 at 7:28 AM: Steven's Personality Structure
1/7 at 8:37 AM: Demons and Angels as Collapsing and Ascending Dynamics
1/6 at 12:37 PM: Practical Guide to the Platinum Rule
1/6 at 12:22 PM: Living in a Relational Microscope
modified:
readings:
1/6 at 6:58 PM: How To Care For Your Body While Working A Desk Job: Part 1
1/6 at 6:52 PM: Massage School: How’s It Going So Far?
1/6 at 6:29 PM: Reflections on Deep-Network Diplomacy and Micropolitical Stabilization
1/5 at 6:14 AM: Towardsness & Awayness Motivation are fundamentally asymmetric • Malcolm Ocean
1/5 at 5:53 AM: “I thought I had Herpes for seven months: The overstigmatized public health clusterfuck that is…
1/5 at 5:31 AM: Meet Cheryl: Your coliving nemesis
1/5 at 5:26 AM: Trump’s Enormous C-Length Win over China
1/5 at 4:41 AM: How to Kill a Commune in 8 Easy Steps
1/5 at 4:20 AM: Why Storing Files in the Database Is Considered Bad Practice
1/4 at 10:45 PM: Reflections on Sexuality
1/4 at 5:18 PM: We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein
1/6 at 9:35 PM: Apple Just Straight-Up Robbed Google
1/6 at 1:29 PM: Ken Griffin says America has been sent an ‘explicit warning’ from the bond market that it’s time to get the national debt in order
1/6 at 1:26 PM: How Trump’s relations with America’s biggest banking boss hit rock bottom
1/7 at 8:14 AM: Crossing the cringe minefield
1/6 at 11:44 AM: Engineered Serendipity
1/6 at 11:31 AM: China has a cheap, quick and quiet way to test novel therapies. Western genetic medicine makers want in
1/4 at 11:50 AM: The Yen Carry Trade: Why Fears Are Blown Out Of Proportion (SP500)
2025/12
published:
12/4 at 12:35 PM: Pain is Pleasure
12/2 at 9:35 AM: The Principal Agent Problem as the "Rootiest Root" of the Polycrisis
12/3 at 12:05 PM: One Path to DWeb
12/2 at 10:20 AM: World as Lover World as Self
modified:
12/3 at 10:59 PM: Nuclear Family Was Never Enough
12/2 at 10:08 PM: Simple vs Coalescing Morality
12/2 at 10:07 PM: Shared but Divided Struggles as Communication Failures
12/2 at 10:07 PM: Building Autonomy
12/2 at 10:05 PM: Conflict Resolution and Joint Non-Cares as Slack
12/2 at 10:05 PM: Building the Home Stack
12/2 at 9:28 PM: Unraveling Personality
12/2 at 9:28 PM: Fractal Apartment as a Niche Incubator?
12/2 at 9:28 PM: The End to Perpetual Crisis
12/2 at 9:26 PM: A Path to Redemption
readings:
12/2 at 2:54 PM: The Network State vs Fractal Localism
12/2 at 2:38 PM: The Network State Review – Digitally native nation building is here
12/2 at 1:18 AM: Scale-Free Political Universalism
12/7 at 12:52 PM: Cognitive Archeology of the West
12/7 at 12:30 PM: Preconquest Consciousness
12/7 at 11:10 AM: Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature
12/7 at 10:26 AM: The great unchurching of America
12/6 at 9:14 PM: Quantum computing: the first 540 million years by David Pearce
12/6 at 9:09 PM: Planetary scale vibe collapse: The death of liminal consciousness as the origin of human suffering
12/6 at 8:23 PM: Let a thousand societies bloom
12/6 at 4:43 PM: Cooperative Interfaces: Rethinking the Politics of Borders & Margins
12/6 at 3:41 PM: Fractal Communalism — social experiments, anarchist futures in the present
12/6 at 2:52 PM: Cognitive dissonance & why it matters for our futures
12/6 at 1:19 PM: Enlightenment
12/6 at 9:02 AM: Wisdom of repugnance - Wikipedia
12/6 at 8:58 AM: Galaxy brain resistance
12/5 at 11:32 PM: The prisons inside of us - on internalised carcerality, transformative justice.
12/3 at 9:24 AM: The Future Breaking Through
12/3 at 9:21 AM: Dangerous Safety
12/3 at 9:17 AM: The Living Dead
12/3 at 9:12 AM: Facing the Truth of Your Desires
12/3 at 9:11 AM: How Trump's 'crony capitalism' has shaken up U.S. business
12/3 at 9:09 AM: When Love Breaks Open
12/5 at 11:49 AM: The atrophy of cultural selves
12/5 at 11:23 AM: A marriage I want
12/4 at 11:56 AM: A Lifetime of Riches – Is it as Simple as a Few Habits?
12/4 at 10:44 AM: The Practice of Unconditional Relationship
12/4 at 10:15 AM: How Unlimited Free Stuff from Amazon Almost Ruined My Retirement
12/2 at 9:45 AM: Oracle’s collapsing stock shows the AI boom is running into two hard limits: physics and debt markets
12/1 at 4:56 PM: There’s a Better Way to Parent: No Yelling, No Praise – In Good Health – Mohawk Valley’s Healthcare Newspaper
12/6 at 12:20 PM: Wu Wei, or Going with the Flow of Governance
12/6 at 10:54 AM: China’s radical philosophy of action, free will, and the self
12/6 at 9:03 AM: Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
12/5 at 11:15 PM: Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall
12/5 at 11:05 PM: China's next economic shift is primed for backlash
12/5 at 10:47 PM: No Other Choice review: 'Deliriously entertaining' South Korean masterpiece is this year's Parasite
12/5 at 10:47 PM: Getting Ready to Party Like It’s 2008
12/4 at 2:51 PM: Why Well-Trained Human Senses Are The Most Mathematically Rigorous Wellness Approach
12/4 at 10:11 AM: Spirituality is Secure Attachment with Reality
12/2 at 7:16 PM: Negative capability - Wikipedia
12/7 at 9:20 AM: The existential balm of seeing yourself as a verb, not a noun | Psyche Ideas
12/3 at 5:07 PM: World As Lover World As Self
12/3 at 4:52 PM: The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947)
2025/11
published:
readings:
11/3 at 4:20 PM: Price correction "worse than 2008" coming to US housing market—analyst
11/1 at 4:19 PM: Jamie Dimon issues private credit warning: ‘When you see one cockroach, there are probably more’
11/7 at 4:20 PM: One Form of Exercise Improves Sleep The Most, Study Finds
11/5 at 11:50 AM: Men of the Manosphere review – a truly terrifying hour
11/1 at 4:36 PM: A moment that changed me: I gave up small talk for a month – and the world came alive
11/7 at 5:41 PM: What Southeast Asian history tells us about a multipolar order
2025/10
published:
10/5 at 1:56 PM: Date Me Doc: Steven Elleman
readings:
10/1 at 4:20 PM: ‘You are constantly told you are evil’: inside the lives of diagnosed narcissists
10/1 at 10:05 AM: This Is the Way a World Order Ends
10/1 at 9:05 AM: The Bay Area is cursed
10/1 at 8:54 AM: Everyone here is in a cult
10/1 at 8:42 AM: ‘Female narcissism is often misdiagnosed’: how science is finding women can have a dark streak too
10/7 at 10:49 AM: Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back.
10/4 at 10:35 AM: Study: We're losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought
10/3 at 10:55 AM: The strip club did indeed make me bonkers!
10/2 at 6:12 PM: the role of the artist is to load the gun.
10/5 at 1:44 PM: A plea from America’s doctors: Cool it on the supplements
10/4 at 7:08 PM: There Is No Revolution without Madness.
10/4 at 6:49 PM: Therapists Are Also the Police: Sex Work, Social Work, and the Politics of Deservingness
10/4 at 2:48 PM: THE WAR IS NOT A METAPHOR: The Capitalist, the Defector, the Traitor, and the Revolutionary
10/1 at 8:14 PM: Germany thrived in the first China Shock. But the next one could prove catastrophic.
10/1 at 8:04 PM: Max Weber’s Lessons for Democracies Under Siege
10/1 at 5:48 PM: Why economists got free trade with China so wrong
10/1 at 12:00 PM: The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America
10/1 at 12:00 PM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is trying to warn us about something. Are we listening?
10/1 at 11:07 AM: Steven Pinker: ‘A generation has to watch every word . . . It could cripple intellectual life’
2025/7
published:
7/1 at 8:59 AM: Compromise vs Alignment
7/3 at 10:00 AM: Nuclear Family Was Never Enough
7/3 at 3:16 AM: Fractal Apartment as a Niche Incubator?
2024/11
published:
11/1 at 9:22 PM: Conflict Resolution and Joint Non-Cares as Slack
11/2 at 1:39 PM: Shared but Divided Struggles as Communication Failures