Hot Takes
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If "everything is art" then nothing is
A true story you probably heard before is a banana which was taped to a wall sold for $120,000. Later, someone ate it and the “artist” called that “a performance,” who then replaced the banana. This sold, too, I believe for 150K. This absur...
The socialist utopia that lasted two years
There’s a lot of talk about socialism these days, despite it’s inherently flawed premise and repeated failures, resulting in millions dying, mass starvation, widespread human suffering, readers here already know the history. Unfortunately,...
The post-literate age is here
Still from the movie Idiocracy
Rose Horowitch’s new Atlantic cover story is a fairly comprehensive read of something I’ve been writing about for a while in various ways: Americans on the whole are getting dumber as we in fact do get richer...
Stanford's new freshman curriculum illustrates exactly what's wrong with college
Hoover Tower, Stanford University
I’ve been writing about the rot in higher education for a while now. In Half of Social Science Falls Apart Under Scrutiny, I covered how a massive seven-year DARPA-funded study found only half of social sc...
Do you have a theory of mind for the other side?
Illustration by Alexander Glandien
There’s a difference between not knowing what someone believes and not understanding why they believe it. Any shallow internet conversation on politics or really any hot topic treats these as the same thi...
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Marketing executive, music composer, author of a Substack called Hot Takes and blogger since 2007
Advocate for Human-First Intelligent Experiences. Recovering executive. Logic+Emotion refugee. GenX Philosopher. Keeping it real in an artificial world…
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