47: Change, travel, and other things
I was travelling again this past week. I left my cold, windy island for the first time this year and
The full archive of my newsletter, covering psychology, philosophy, business and culture. Every post features a photo from my travels.
I was travelling again this past week. I left my cold, windy island for the first time this year and
How companies conspire to make you consume more, and how you can turn obsolescence into a mechanism for productivity.
How to give the best gifts to your past, present and future selves.
A note from my journal on conviction and mimesis.
Pattern-matching and robust thinking are more important than tactics and abstraction.
How to give the best gifts to your past, present and future selves.
Finding clarity in the gap between objects of focus.
We're failing to design equitable systems. Will machines be better or worse?
Anticipatory measures, sunk costs, and the endowment effect.
Thoughts on leadership, experimentation and learning.
Unpolished notes, thoughts and ideas for navigating the world around us.
Prophecies, stoicism, colonoscopies, general AI, and other lessons from my first few weeks as a dog owner.