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.
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What Happens When We Stop Sharing Reality
The World We Knew I was sitting in an Uber with a friend in Accra, Ghana, when I noticed the
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Why You Don't Actually Need a Lawn
The Problem With Lawns Lawns, as expanses of verdant private land, were invented as a status signal. English aristocrats in
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Why Keeping Options Open Keeps You Mediocre: The case for burning your backup plans
The Future and the Failsafe The future isn't a failsafe. Optionality and compounding are enemy twins. It'
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Why the Best Things Resist Easy Discovery: The hidden treasures that only reveal themselves to those willing to dig
There’s a line someone shared recently which made me pause for a minute. It’s in Proverbs 25:2:
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Your Certainty Is Making You Anxious: Why eliminating risk makes you less resilient
Civilisation Is A Certainty Machine There’s an easy allure to certain things. You like the train that runs on
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When Pain Means Progress: How to tell whether discomfort is a signal to push or to stop
The Pain Is the Point When I walk for several hours on the treadmill under my desk, my legs hurt
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Stop Fighting Over Crumbs: The Escape Velocity of Agency
Some people love a good grumble. They hate the way things are. The choices they have. The life they'
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Why We Stopped Hunting Whales: The Case for Kerosene
The Case for Kerosene We’re addicted to cheap energy. We once had a global industry hunting whales, to light
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You can't bottle beauty: Why some things lose their value the moment you try to capture them
There's an idea I've been toying with recently – I call it the Seagull Paradox. It'
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Why everything is the way it is: How ordinary people built the world you take for granted
The world around you wasn't always this way. The streets weren't always laid out like this.
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How to Use Your Time Well: The paradox every ambitious person has to solve
Two voices whisper to us about the ways we use our time, and both claim to speak the truth. The
