
first principles, second thoughts, shiny objects
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Climate change is sometimes described as a “hyperobject”―a problem too immense and too borderless for any one person to comprehend. The term sounds foreboding in its abstraction, weighed down by everything it encapsulates yet weightless in...
The recent uproar over Geese—whether or not the band is a “psyop”—makes two things clear. First, people hate feeling like they’re being manipulated. To suggest that Geese fans didn’t discover the band “organically”—that they were played, to...
In this post:
Plugging new (old) writing in Dissent!
Some notes on “climate policy denial” among Democrats
A plug for the Caravanserai magazine of policy and culture!
Reading/watching: the Green Knight, Where the Axe is...
A year ago, I panned a piece by Varun Sivaram inaugurating the Council on Foreign Relations’ new “Climate Realism Initiative.” His essay was full of ham-fisted and slightly horrifyingly belligerent suggestions for how the U.S. startup ecosy...
I have never understood productivity hacks: What’s the point? The tasks start coming and they don’t stop coming.
One question I’ve received with increasing frequency over the past three months is one I feel mostly unqualified to answer: “W...
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