Less Is More: Don’t Try to Understand the Koan
Less is more?
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- Tags: less is more, mac, roger scruton, Tao Te Ching, thinkpad
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Improbable but Inevitable: on Doing Things for the First Time
Unity2020 wants to outflank the Democrat vs Republican system; if it works it would be a first, but the USA is a nation of firsts.
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- Tags: articles of unity, bret weinstein, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, Tories, Unity2020, usa, Whigs
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A Request for Comments
Blog comments have declined over the years, and I think that this has hurt our discourse. I request your comments!
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An Advertisement for Myself
Connections.
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Conversational Interoperability
This is my proposal for a set of principles that describe how to have interoperable conversations.
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- Tags: conversational interoperability, internet, jon postel
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How to Think about the Coronavirus: Non-Linearity, Uncertainty, Branching Histories
Take direction from people who understand exponential trends, wash your hands and, when it’s over, remember which branch of history we went down.
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- Tags: coronavirus, covid-19, nassim taleb, naval ravikant, nicholas a. christakis, sam harris
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The Accidental Tyranny of User Interfaces
The potential of technology to empower is being subverted by tyrannical user interface design, enabled by our data and attention. Medium icon
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- Tags: GNU/Linux, Ted Nelson, YouTube
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Four Lessons from My Father
Four of the lessons that my late father taught me.
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Stop Looking at and Sharing Internet Memes
Stop memeing. Memes are fun but ultimately they’re mental junk-food – throw them out in favour of actual nourishment.
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- Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Dilbert, Downing Street, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Martin Amis, The Simpsons
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On Working Class Tories (a Response to a Meme)
Has being called a playground insult by a 478 pixel-wide internet meme ever convinced you of anything?
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