Blog Posts
- THE MAINTENANCE RACE: A great piece on the importance and power of maintenance, given in the context of the 1968 Golden Globe yacht race.
- STAGNATION AND SCIENTIFIC INCENTIVES: A research paper hypothesising how emphasis on citation count has resulted in stagnating progress. Interesting reading related to how poor goal-setting can result in misaligned incentives.
- The lost thread: Musings on the (un)importance and inevitable decline of Twitter.
- M–Selection: Architecture: Nice minimalist site design.
- Works in Progress: Strong website design.
- Epistemic Minor Leagues: An essay thinking about the ‘discovery drive’ of humans, how we can manage to create novel insights without necessarily being field leaders.
- You don’t have writer’s block, you’re just being evil: Whn you believe your ideas should be better than they are, even your own mind seems boring and nothing will be worth writing.
- How to Write Usefully: Useful writing tells people something true and important they didn’t already know.
- Learning by Writing: The process for going from zero knowledge to having a credible opinion on a topic.
- America Is Running Out of New Ideas: Why do truly new ideas not fuel growth the way they once did?
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Incredible piece on the passage of time.