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Archive
2026
- Meditations on Moloch
- Why Books Don't Work
- How should a modeling substrate coordinate partial models?
- Effective system design requires insights drawn from serious contexts of use
- What tools for thought should learn from simulation software
- Roam Research Roadmap (because nobody writes fan fiction about Notion)
- Things Nobody Will Tell You About
- The Two Watersheds
- The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to The Office
- Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
- As We May Think
- Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework
- How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
- Magic Ink
- The Universal Design Pattern
- Logistics of a Healthy World
- Open Loops
- Start Here
- Make beautiful things scale
- Manners for Clankers
2025
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Turning it Off & On Again
- People I Look Up To
- Chesterson's Fence
- The opposite of a great truth is another great truth
- If you went to a school you never graduated from, what would you study?
- Dumb AI Questions
- Reflections- Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- F*ck numbers
- If you’re evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term.
- Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing, so be careful what you get good at.
- Reversible and Irreversible Decisions
- You cannot connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them backwards.
- most competitions follow exponential distributions
- the recipe for genius is to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters
- My Quests for 2025
- Schlep Blindness
- bootstrapping
- dangerous professional
- My Answer to the Hamming Question
- Books that teach you to see differently
- How to be a Good Contrarian
- More is different because scale is the 5th dimension
- Murphyjitsu
- The answer to all of the problems is all of the solutions
- Tools for Thought Reading List
- Ways to Break out of The Matrix
- What I Install When I Get a new Mac
- What games are net positive for society?
- What is the 21st century equivalent to punctuation?