Your Life is the Sum Total of 2,000 Mondays
We plan our lives like we're editing a movie trailer. The trip to Portugal, or the product launch, or the transformation photo at the gym. The big moment
Why Intelligence Is a Terrible Proxy for Wisdom
Isaac Newton, one of the greatest scientific minds in human history, lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble of 1720. After initially making money and selling his shares, he
Claude Code Won't Fix Your Life
Claude Code can now read and write to local file systems. You can point it at your Obsidian vault and suddenly you have an AI that “knows” everything you’ve
The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufactured
How to Debug Your Life
I. In 1947, Grace Hopper and her team at Harvard were working on the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator. The machine was massive, a deafening clatter of electromechanical relays, and
Failure vs. Success is the Wrong Frame.
How many novels exist only as "I'm still outlining"? How many startups live permanently in "stealth mode"? How many paintings never get painted because
A Metabolic Workspace
In 1895, a Belgian lawyer, bibliographer and information scientist named Paul Otlet started building what he would call the Mundaneum: a vast repository in Brussels containing over 12 million index
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War - By Jonathan Dimbleby
💡Grim but essential // corrective to the Western-centric view of WWII. Dimbleby argues persuasively that the war was won and lost on the Eastern Front in 1941, not on the beaches
1929 - By Andrew Ross Sorkin
💡A terrifying // granular look at the hubris that melted the global economy. Sorkin doesn't paint the bankers as cartoon villains, so much as delusional optimists who got high
The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice.
The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer
Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made
Why My Newsletter Costs $2.50
In the 1980s, Minor Threat frontman Ian MacKaye discovered he was opening for The Damned at a show where tickets cost $13.50. His response was to voluntarily cut his