Free Post review Avoiding Horror Volatility: from it, there are things that gain, and those which abhor; The antifragile is sustained, The fragile faces horror.
Free Post review This book might rid you of your slogans If read closely, Animal Farm by George Orwell may go a long way to disarming you of your slogans.
Free Post review Do Deepfakes Make It Harder to Think For Yourself? The premise of Nina Schick's book, Deep Fakes: The Coming Infocalypse is that the pitch of ongoing information wars will be imminently heightened by the emergence of deep fakes, which will only become more believable and perhaps less detectable as time goes on.
Free Post review All of Life is a Wager One of my favorite writers and thinkers is Christopher Hitchens, who once said: "All of life is a wager."
Free Post The Way to Love Think of someone who is afraid to let go of a nightmare because, after all, that is the only world he knows. There you have a picture of yourself and
Free Post notes A lesson I learned from Roger Ebert’s friend A lifelong friend of Roger Ebert gifted me this advice. I met the elderly gentleman while taking a break from standup paddle-boarding on the Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis, MN.
Free Post review What the ocean tells us about ourselves Beginning with his observation of the world's elite freedivers in various extraordinary competitions, to descriptions of efforts to communicate with dolphins, to the lightless abysses of the ocean floor...
Free Post What IS THIS ANYTHING?'s aesthetics reveal about producing comedy Notice the pages and the sentences and the spaces between them. Some have few words. Some fewer.
Free Post Character can't be taken from you The book is The Character Edge: Winning and Leading with Integrity. In the latest book on character in success, whether organization, business, personal, the authors Lt. General Robert L. Caslen,
Free Post reading Sculpting your life With my improved visual literacy, I've appreciated the sequential art detailing a struggling artist who makes a deal with Death with hopes to make art so good he isn't forgotten (and to live up to his family name).
Free Post reading Update on The Immortality Key Perhaps my favorite aspect is how the author engages fluently in his correspondents' native languages. Impressive so far. Clearly the result of a dozen years work.
Free Post essay We don’t have a choice what we read When I ask why they are reading what they are reading, most readers respond with a variation of “my friend recommended it to me.” Where’s the choice in that?
Free Post notes May the scaling laws be in your favor - Notes from Geoffrey West's SCALE This is a guest post with detailed notes by my friend, Sean Legler. Dear reader, Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies was
Free Post essay On translating debates & literature It's not that I don't wish to be persuaded. It's true that on topics where I have some detailed knowledge--whatever a priori values I care about, and how these values manifest in beliefs or opinions on issues--these priors will very much influence my interpretation of what is said on those topics.
Free Post review Shifting Optics: A Life in Perspective, by Dung Duong Inspiring, but not a survival story, rather, a perspective to share with one's kids--how can perseverance be taught?
