The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham—A Review

It has been said that the first building block of a dynasty is the self-sufficient home. Women’s traditional roles were a crucial part of creating…

In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto.

How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it

David explores how Christianity and religion shape Peter Thiel's worldview and success. Read here.

Blink - Online identity & payment technologies

Almost everyone who does great work toils in relative obscurity. Performance reviews are social fiction. How do people really advance through the corporate hierarchy?

The promise of a technologically advancing future is predicated on millennia of accumulated knowledge. How can we retain that knowledge?

How the Dead Internet Theory is fast becoming reality thanks to zero, marginal-cost content generated at infinite scale

Alt-History, High Strangeness, Ultra-terrestrial Research. Click to read Schwabstack, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.

Naughty GETTR posts? Say bye-bye to your TWITTER account

Nothing is private and no one is free

Jerome Tuccille, author of RADICAL LIBERTARIANISM and presently editor of the newly formed OUTLOOK magazine, has just published his second...

I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to the public fell into my hands. * * * (as recorded to the ge...

Trends in medium, AI, and user interaction underpin Instagram’s response to TikTok, and will determine Meta’s long-term moat.

The normally innocuous workplace comic strip is arguably trying to get itself cancelled after three decades in syndication. But why?

Why friend graphs can‘t compete in an algorithmic world.

I looked at 34 projects listed by the top Google result for “real-world blockchain projects”. 33 of these are either dead, pivoted away from Blockchain, use Blockchain in a (sometimes dangerously) bad way, or are have no real-world utility.

[Note: I really liked this book and if I criticize it that’s not meant as an attack but just as what I do with interesting ideas. Note that Robin has offered to debate me about some of this a…