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196 essays in 2024 · since 2024

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December 2024

18 essays

30 Dec best books of 2024 Personal Canon Culture 30 Dec Anthropological Intelligence AI Ascendant Tech 29 Dec Life Cannot Be Delegated The Convivial Society Culture 23 Dec 2024: A Year In Review Karan Sharma Tech 20 Dec The Amazonification of Public Space Kneeling Bus Culture 20 Dec The Mannheim Steamroller Version of "Deck the Halls" Is Insufferable and I Will Fight Anyone Who Disagrees Scott Smitelli Tech 19 Dec Miss Me? Better Letter Finance 11 Dec To Hell With Good Intentions, Silicon Valley Edition The Convivial Society Culture 11 Dec The Computational Web From Jason Tech 11 Dec Why are my best friends Jewish? Derek Sivers Life 10 Dec Inconsistency as a service AI Ascendant Tech 10 Dec One big choice shapes a hundred more Derek Sivers Life 09 Dec in praise of writing on the internet Personal Canon Culture 09 Dec Arguing Is Bullshit Everything is Bullshit Psychology 06 Dec Come and get me (both you and AI) Derek Sivers Life 05 Dec I’m in the final third of my life Derek Sivers Life 03 Dec Self-guaranteeing promises Steph Ango Design 01 Dec December 2024 Maggie Appleton Design

November 2024

18 essays

28 Nov Bluesky may have the juice, but we don't have to drink the Kool-Aid From Jason Tech 27 Nov The Enclosure of the Human Psyche The Convivial Society Culture 26 Nov I love the contradiction of religions Derek Sivers Life 25 Nov It turns out technology isn’t the future. Fertility is. Pilgrims in the Machine Culture 25 Nov The first time I met someone who believes in God Derek Sivers Life 22 Nov Large Chainsaw Model Scott Smitelli Tech 20 Nov Amulets Against the Spirits of the Age The Convivial Society Culture 18 Nov Dismissed! Derek Sivers Life 16 Nov I hated Dubai until I learned about it Derek Sivers Life 15 Nov The Fake Fixation Scott Smitelli Tech 15 Nov To question is to consider, not refute Derek Sivers Life 12 Nov Imagination Is Bullshit Everything is Bullshit Psychology 12 Nov Rats are surprisingly sweet pets Derek Sivers Life 11 Nov We don’t need to use what we make Derek Sivers Life 08 Nov Beijing braces for impact: What Trump 2.0 might mean for US-China relations High Capacity Economics 08 Nov Vapid Vibes: What does our culture want us to want? Pilgrims in the Machine Culture 04 Nov Wall Street Investors Enter Single Family Rentals Arpitrage Economics 01 Nov Crisis and Revelation Ever Not Quite Tech

October 2024

10 essays

30 Oct How I use LLMs Karan Sharma Tech 21 Oct The AI Curse is Coming for the Creator's Economy Pilgrims in the Machine Culture 15 Oct Bullshit Is a Choice Everything is Bullshit Psychology 12 Oct Snapshots: Quotations about Photography Ever Not Quite Tech 07 Oct Graph Paper James Randall Tech 05 Oct Strange Shadows [Part II] Ever Not Quite Tech 05 Oct Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh Maggie Appleton Design 04 Oct Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest Age of Invention History 03 Oct Meta's Toaster Problem From Jason Tech 02 Oct Decentralised Open Indexes for Discovery (DOID) Kailash Nadh Tech

September 2024

9 essays

30 Sep This is [my dead grandmother]'s special day! Scott Smitelli Tech 27 Sep Strange Shadows [Part I] Ever Not Quite Tech 27 Sep Wealth = Have ÷ Want Derek Sivers Life 20 Sep Self Hosting Outline Wiki Karan Sharma Tech 15 Sep Measuring Housing Regulations at Scale Arpitrage Economics 13 Sep Tangentially, we can fix your raycaster. Scott Smitelli Tech 12 Sep Data Piggy From Jason Tech 09 Sep 30 Useful Concepts about Bullshit Everything is Bullshit Psychology 08 Sep Is Object vs Subject a Real Dichotomy? Mosaics Newsletter Philosophy

August 2024

13 essays

31 Aug How to sync Mac and Linux /home Derek Sivers Life 27 Aug Raw dog the open web! From Jason Tech 25 Aug Transforming Consciousness: The Core of Human Nature Mosaics Newsletter Philosophy 22 Aug If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention The Convivial Society Culture 19 Aug Competing in search Benedict Evans Tech 18 Aug The Evolving Self: What Drives Our Own Transformation? Mosaics Newsletter Philosophy 14 Aug On build in public and indie hacking communities Dmitry Kudryavtsev Tech 14 Aug The Lesser 2024 Olympics Rankings Scott Smitelli Tech 14 Aug How to make the best possible translation of a book? Derek Sivers Life 05 Aug Embracing Sub-Optimal Relationships The Convivial Society Culture 04 Aug How Would We Really Know if LLM is Conscious? Mosaics Newsletter Philosophy 02 Aug The Network Time Protocol: What Times Are It? Scott Smitelli Tech 01 Aug Re-sourcing the Mind The Convivial Society Culture

July 2024

14 essays

30 Jul "Deep" Bullshit Everything is Bullshit Psychology 27 Jul What We Lose When Machines Do the Writing Ever Not Quite Tech 25 Jul A warped hall of mirrors: US-China competition and industrial policy High Capacity Economics 24 Jul On software as an "in-discipline" Kailash Nadh Tech 12 Jul What they do (not) teach you about Entrepreneurship in school Dmitry Kudryavtsev Tech 09 Jul The AI summer Benedict Evans Tech 08 Jul The VR winter continues Benedict Evans Tech 08 Jul Money Is Bullshit Everything is Bullshit Psychology 07 Jul The UK and French elections (The Platform) Oliver Marc Hartwich Economics 07 Jul Leaving Elicit Maggie Appleton Design 05 Jul One year of solopreneurship Dmitry Kudryavtsev Tech 01 Jul Property Taxes and Housing Allocation under Financial Constraints Arpitrage Economics 01 Jul July 2024 Maggie Appleton Design 01 Jul ScottSmitelli.com Scott Smitelli Tech

June 2024

19 essays

29 Jun VoxEd James Randall Tech 29 Jun Small WebGL Examples Scott Smitelli Tech 28 Jun What can we remove? Steph Ango Design 27 Jun Age of Invention: The Dutch Salten Age Age of Invention History 24 Jun Certifying that M_127 is prime Shreevatsa Culture 24 Jun Certifying that M_127 is prime Shreevatsa Culture 21 Jun The sorry state of terminal support for Indic scripts (on macOS) Shreevatsa Culture 21 Jun The sorry state of terminal support for Indic scripts (on macOS) Shreevatsa Culture 20 Jun Apple intelligence and AI maximalism Benedict Evans Tech 14 Jun Building an expense tracker app Karan Sharma Tech 13 Jun Only Human Better Letter Finance 11 Jun Is Effective Altruism Bullshit? Everything is Bullshit Psychology 11 Jun The Work of Art The Convivial Society Culture 08 Jun Building AI products Benedict Evans Tech 07 Jun Value for Money Better Letter Finance 06 Jun The state of New Zealand (Newstalk ZB) Oliver Marc Hartwich Economics 03 Jun Knuth's program PERFECT-PARTITION-SQUARE Shreevatsa Culture 03 Jun Knuth's program PERFECT-PARTITION-SQUARE Shreevatsa Culture 01 Jun Highlights from "I spent 6 years developing a game in Rust and it just shipped, AMA" Games by Mason Tech

May 2024

28 essays

30 May Finding What We’re Not Looking For Better Letter Finance 30 May Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers Maggie Appleton Design 29 May Learning from Switzerland (Reality Check Radio) Oliver Marc Hartwich Economics 26 May The Rise of Rapid Regional Rail Arpitrage Economics 23 May Every Highway Better Letter Finance 23 May Avoidance Machines Artificial Bureaucracy History 22 May Thank you, & the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase Games by Mason Tech 20 May Way of Rhea Out Now! Games by Mason Tech 19 May Way of Rhea releases tomorrow! - The End Game Games by Mason Tech 18 May “All I Ever Need Is You” Ever Not Quite Tech 18 May Contra Strong Towns Arpitrage Economics 18 May Way of Rhea releases in 2 days! - The Professor's Biome Games by Mason Tech 18 May How and why to make a /now page on your site Derek Sivers Life 17 May The Necessary Leap Better Letter Finance 17 May Way of Rhea releases in 3 days! - Rhea's Biome Games by Mason Tech 16 May The Stuff of (a Well-Lived) Life The Convivial Society Culture 16 May Way of Rhea releases in 4 days! - The Overworld Games by Mason Tech 15 May Way of Rhea releases in 5 days! - Snow Crab's Biome Games by Mason Tech 14 May Way of Rhea releases in 6 days! - Shrew's Biome Games by Mason Tech 13 May Mediocrity as an Existential Risk Everything is Bullshit Psychology 13 May Way of Rhea releases in 7 days! Games by Mason Tech 10 May All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Ever Not Quite Tech 09 May Fool's Errand Better Letter Finance 09 May The Ambling Mind The Convivial Society Culture 09 May Love is freedom Steph Ango Design 06 May Belt and Road for New Zealand (NewstalkZB) Oliver Marc Hartwich Economics 04 May Ways to think about AGI Benedict Evans Tech 01 May Age of Invention: The Second Soul, Part II Age of Invention History

April 2024

11 essays

30 Apr Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History Maggie Appleton Design 29 Apr AI and problems of scale Benedict Evans Tech 29 Apr FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared. From Jason Tech 26 Apr Gaza, "Psyop Brain," and the Long Shadow of Russiagate Artificial Bureaucracy History 22 Apr Manufactured niceness Everything is Bullshit Psychology 22 Apr Way of Rhea - Release Date Announcement Games by Mason Tech 21 Apr A Random Act of Kindness Karan Sharma Tech 19 Apr Looking for AI use-cases Benedict Evans Tech 13 Apr On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars Maggie Appleton Design 12 Apr the best book ever written Derek Sivers Life 03 Apr Lavender, Military AI, and Technological Delegation Artificial Bureaucracy History

March 2024

30 essays

30 Mar SprEd: New selection tools James Randall Tech 29 Mar Control Group: Effective Altruism and the Technologization of Ethics Ever Not Quite Tech 28 Mar Ben Kihnel Derek Sivers Life 27 Mar Empire of Asphalt: Selecting ranges and creating zones James Randall Tech 27 Mar Travelling with Tailscale Karan Sharma Tech 24 Mar Empire of Asphalt: WebGL GUI with JSX James Randall Tech 23 Mar The problem of AI ethics Benedict Evans Tech 23 Mar New GDP figures (Newstalk ZB) Oliver Marc Hartwich Economics 22 Mar Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet The Convivial Society Culture 22 Mar Empire of Asphalt: Cameras and Picking James Randall Tech 21 Mar Who cares about tech regulation? Benedict Evans Tech 18 Mar Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis Maggie Appleton Design 17 Mar A month of the Vision Pro Benedict Evans Tech 17 Mar Elite: ECM and Energy Bomb James Randall Tech 17 Mar Elite: Thargoids James Randall Tech 14 Mar A Year of Bullshit Everything is Bullshit Psychology 12 Mar Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something From Jason Tech 12 Mar It shows what you need to believe Derek Sivers Life 11 Mar A Collection of Design Engineers Maggie Appleton Design 11 Mar AI gives the news you need Derek Sivers Life 10 Mar Elite: Missiles James Randall Tech 09 Mar Audio Versions Are Back The Convivial Society Culture 08 Mar Secularization Comes For the Religion of Technology (Audio Version) The Convivial Society Culture 08 Mar Age of Invention: The Second Soul, Part I Age of Invention History 08 Mar How to learn JavaScript Derek Sivers Life 06 Mar Vision Con (Audio Version) The Convivial Society Culture 05 Mar Elite: Lasers and loadouts James Randall Tech 04 Mar Learning to Receive the Day (Audio Version) The Convivial Society Culture 03 Mar Elite: Asset loading optimisation James Randall Tech 02 Mar Elite: Loading screen and game saves James Randall Tech

February 2024

14 essays

27 Feb Empire of Asphalt: Landscape Part 1 James Randall Tech 26 Feb Earth is becoming sentient Steph Ango Design 24 Feb Empire of Asphalt: Starting simple James Randall Tech 24 Feb Elite: To do James Randall Tech 23 Feb Checking in with P. G. Wodehouse Shreevatsa Culture 23 Feb Checking in with P. G. Wodehouse Shreevatsa Culture 20 Feb Elite: combat evolved James Randall Tech 19 Feb Announcing the Way of Rhea Closed Beta! Games by Mason Tech 16 Feb Does the common law deal with climate policy? (The Platform) Oliver Marc Hartwich Economics 13 Feb Unlock a Housing Boom through Depreciation Bonuses Arpitrage Economics 11 Feb Notes on a translation choice Shreevatsa Culture 11 Feb Notes on a translation choice Shreevatsa Culture 10 Feb 100% user-supported Steph Ango Design 03 Feb Remaking the app store Benedict Evans Tech

January 2024

12 essays

31 Jan A first-class recitation of the Rāmāyaṇa Shreevatsa Culture 31 Jan A first-class recitation of the Rāmāyaṇa Shreevatsa Culture 30 Jan New Zealand's inflation outlook for 2024 (Newstalk ZB) Oliver Marc Hartwich Economics 30 Jan Why FinTech Failed Arpitrage Economics 23 Jan The Bronze Trade Origins of Cities Arpitrage Economics 19 Jan Age of Invention: Unsung Materials Age of Invention History 10 Jan One Billion Row Challenge in Go Karan Sharma Tech 08 Jan Where have all the websites gone? From Jason Tech 04 Jan The Two Reacts Overreacted Tech 03 Jan Bloktoberfest— Some anticlimactic thoughts on blocking From Jason Tech 01 Jan The Goods-Services Rotation Theory of Inflation Arpitrage Economics 01 Jan How do we stop Meta in 2024? We fix the information loop From Jason Tech