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A light isn't the sun
Artificial light does one job well enough that we forget how much else the sun actually does — the same substitution is happening with book summaries, film clips, and AI writing.
The Man in the Arena speech
"Citizenship In A Republic", delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910 Commonly quoted: "
In Praise of Bad Writers
In praise of bad writers In the summer of 2026 a professor began to suspect that most of his students
Skin in the game
This is just a draft of a post I'll share in much better shape next week. I just
The chatbot is not your friend
Anthropomorphising AI chatbots and agents will likely prove to have been a catastrophic mistake. It's the primary cause
Go Get a Name
If I started calling you 'Wainwright', you might wrinkle your nose. Not because it's a weird
The Hunt for Inequality
I often joke that America could solve its immigration problems overnight if it started broadcasting images of McDowell County, West
No Way to Die
For some people, the risk of death is already “priced in”. Economists use that phrase to talk about events that
The Curse of Accretion
There's a video I watched of a man standing by his garden fence filming, narrating as his lawn
The Opposite of Evil is Usually Evil
The Opposite of Evil is Usually Evil I remember first hearing the story of Icarus as a child, and you
A life of hard things
Things should be harder than they are. Or, perhaps it's better to say, things are often much easier
The Stranger You'll Become
The Stranger You’ll Become Hal Hershfield put people in brain scanners and asked them to think about themselves; about
