2022 - To Read

In light of that garbage Amazon article I just posted and also my frustration with Patreon lately, let's talk about audiences, platforms, asymmetrical information, and rent-seeking this morning.  As a small business owner and creator of all kinds of different (mostly digital) products, this is something I have a lot

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found about Sullivan through Cowan

There’s a fond belief among the comfortable classes of our time, and for that matter every other time, that the future can be arranged in advance through reasonable discussions among reasonable peo…

Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared.

His experimental music was rooted in the physics of sound and might yield unpredictable results — in one instance a Beatles song emanating from a teapot.

People using interrogative self-talk seem to perform better than those who use declarative self-talk. That’s the Willpower Paradox.

Let’s cut to the chase: there is no universally perfect productivity system. Instead of wasting time trying to copy-and-paste a system from a self-help book, everyone should intentionally design a system that works for them.

The Portable Forth Environment implements the ANSI Forth Standard, it is fully written in C, the newer version has a module concept, and it is fully…

Ray Peat

Resources for learning Category Theory for an enthusiast - prathyvsh/category-theory-resources

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Deleuze’s short essay ‘Postscript on Societies of Control’ has become one of the most widely discussed individual essays in continental philosophy in recent years. Deleuze’s update of Foucault’s ‘d…

what's the best piece of "left-wing" art?— Zero HP Lovecraft (@0x49fa98) June 29, 2021

Anyone familiar with any literature combining Lacan or Deleuze with Queer Theory??I'm also tagging the few people I hope have some pointers @boreddeleuzian @acidhorizonpod— Nilrem is eating from the trashcan of ideology (@Pure__Ideology) June 28, 2021

I’m watching the Three Colors Trilogy and really enjoying it. Are there other art-house-ish Polish films I should watch?— Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) June 29, 2021

god I hate the term “user”— Jason Yuan (@jasonyuandesign) June 21, 2021

1) I am attempting to give a free and honest reading (i.e. "cynically and with innocence") of Domenico Losurdo's book on Nietzsche that has recently been published in English. First, in four posts, I examine the stakes of his analysis and its reception: https://t.co/dMp3OsIReg— Terence Blake (@TPBlake) June 22, 2021

new acquisitions. ready to get lost in these pic.twitter.com/gn7eU9D1OH— matty matt (@noetic_emetic) June 21, 2021

[THREAD]"Mel, how do you read so much/so fast?"truth is, i DON'T!my reading speed (as in 'words per minute' wise) is probably somewhere between average and slow.HOWEVERi do manage to read quite a bit in what seems like a short amount of time, so read this thread1/10— A World to Win ☭🚩✊ (@AWorldtoWin1) June 20, 2021

I compiled all the Hegel secondaries I read for my Phenomenology class in case anyone is stuck on Hegel secondaries. Roughly ordered by chapter, but also an assorted section with full books on a range of topics and papers what don't strictly fit into a chapter pic.twitter.com/xSEJZ4tiIj— LJ (@universal_lucas) December 12, 2020

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pic.twitter.com/E1MbdNYwff— pictures of the end (@neighbours_wifi) June 15, 2021