- Vincent Rajkumar on X: I’ve been on this platform for 16 years. Here are some tips on how to be productive, and gain influence and credibility on X. Great advice for those attending the 2015 ASH Annual Meeting, but I am not so sure about their utility a decade later. Where is the hematology dark forest?
- Edward Zitron: The Era Of The Business Idiot. The more sociopathic of Taleb’s IYIs become executives; hilarity ensues.
- Cory Doctorow: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI. An introduction to Doctorow’s new book, “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI. Astute as ever.
- Chris Arnade: [Why are Americans Unhappy]. Arnade dismantles the $140,000 poverty line idiocy with a side jab at the abundance movement by repeating the insight he has each time he visits a seemingly poorer but more communal part of Europe:
So yes, Americans are materially wealthy and unfulfilled, and the primary problem is cultural—we’ve sacrificed community and meaning to emphasize an archetype built on acquiring as much stuff as possible, but then we have made that unnecessarily hard to do. When you give your citizens a cultural script, built on the material, that promises hard work will lead to success, and then your policy design ensures it doesn’t, people will end up both economically frustrated, as well as spiritually empty, sitting in their living room streaming the latest movie wondering what exactly is the point of life. Or, they will feel they have failed at the material, while also having little else to give them meaning.