The Zeitgeist
If Memorial Day is anything, it is a day for telling and re-telling stories about Full Hearts. Let me tell and re-tell you the story of Milton Lee Olive III.
The Long Now
Things Fall Apart
What Do We Need To Be True?
Modeling common knowledge by analyzing missionary statements and their reverberations works. Except when it doesn’t.
A Tiger Can’t Change Its Stripes
What do you get when you give a raccoon billions of dollars AND invisibility from regulators? Collusion and insider trading.
Hunger Games
Covid Variants
Why Am I Reading This Now? 11.28.22
Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
Why Am I Reading This Now? 11.21.22
Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
The MacGuffin, Part 2: The Story Arc of SBF and FTX
The MacGuffin is the object of desire.
It is the thing around which the plot of the story revolves.
Here is the story arc of SBF and FTX, and the MacGuffin that anchored it all – the Magical Money Machine.
Why Am I Reading This Now? 11.14.22
Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
Harper's Corner
Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in Florida. They have a "killer gene" that will diminish the disease carrying local population over time. I'm still scared.
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Do The Right Thing
Bailout the airlines and their rank-and-file employees? You bet.
Bailout the CEOs? Not a chance.
But that’s what we’re gonna do.
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Office Hours 3.16.2021
Our March 2021 Office Hours. Talking about our latest notes and podcasts.