Performative Bafflement
Fitness, non-fiction book reviews, and study-backed deep dives into topics as diverse as policing, peak physical and mental performance, obesity, and paleoanthropology.
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Achieving fiscal solvency by not letting private equity bros torture grandma to death
This is my post on how America can escape its fiscal trap, which I wrote because my epistolary buddy specifically called me out and requested it - so just a note to anyone else out there, you should definitely call out posts from Substack...
Links Post #3
Half the links before the paywall, as always
Great post on needing a market like infrastructure, including calibrated introspection, in order to allocate AI agents correctly.
The AI blackpill - interventions and solutions
I want to talk about big cultural and economic shifts over the last 50 years.
Remember this guy?
The top 3% got 500% growth. The top 10% got the marquee ~250% growth rate in comp, and everyone else got less and are basically running in p...
What I believe but cannot prove - my contrarian takes
Callouts to articles by Matt Yglesias, Rohan Ghostwind, and (much earlier) Alexander Kruel for writing posts like these and inspiring me to do one myself, because the format looks fun.
Broadly, the idea is articulating where you stand in...
On the conquest of Peru
So I ended up reading about the conquest of Peru, because Peru is one of my favorite countries, and Lima is one of my favorite cities.
You know how every Westerner who goes to Tokyo comes back raving? “Everything is so clean and well orde...
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