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Members Only: On Cathedral thinking
Tread carefully, because you tread on my fucks.
On any given day, I have roughly 5 or so fucks to give. Before anyone takes that as a confession of total selfishness… I wake up each morning with a
"Collaboration" is bullshit.
In 1944, the Wehrmacht launched into Hitler’s last ditch effort to save the Third Reich. The Battle of the Bulge was a doomed campaign and a doomed gamble from
Members Only: How do we define our own flourishing?
Nikolai Kardashev believed we could classify civilisations by the eneregy they harness. The Soviet Astrophysicist proposed three “Types” of civilisation - Type I controls the energy budget of its homeward,
Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
Appearing on the Founders podcast this week, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen made the rather extraordinary claim that - going back four hundred years - it would never have occurred to
The optimized self and the life that got away
A Scottish author named Samuel Smiles is arguably responsible for the self-help-hellscape. In the 1800’s, he published a book literally called Self-Help, which went through dozens of editions, was
Everything's Casino
On the evening of February 28, 2026, American B-2 bombers lifted off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. By the time they reached Iranian airspace, Tomahawk missiles were already
Members Only: We desperately need a Reality Literacy
The Noble Path
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an indie hacker in possession of a widget must be in want of a business model... Every tool is a startup now. Every
A soft-landing manual for the second gilded age
By the summer of 1945, West Berlin had been reduced to rubble. Allied bombing, the Soviet ground assault and Hitler's insistence on Götterdämmerung had destroyed roughly a third
Members Only: Your anonymity set has collapsed and you don't know it yet
Everything is awesome (why I'm an optimist)
February is the month the internet decided we're all going to die. In the span of about two weeks, Matt Shumer's Something Big is Happening racked