Do We Have to Be Assholes About Everything? I was sitting in a coffee shop this morning, the kind of place where everyone pretends they’re
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I write this as a veteran of Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Fiery Vigil, Restore Hope, and Southern Watch.I wore the uniform willingly. I believed
There is a problem that appears every time human beings attempt to protect something fundamental. We try to define it. We write it down. We
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the Edge of Humanity
We Are Standing at the Edge of Everything Humanity Has Built Every generation thinks it lives at an important moment. Most are wrong. We are
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Build the Libraries Again
Andrew Carnegie understood something that feels almost subversive today: If you accumulate extraordinary wealth from society, you owe society infrastructure, not favors. Andrew Carnegie did
On Hair, Evolution, and Why Bad Comparisons Keep Failing I was working on Iron Age material and putting together a visual with Brobot—one of those
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Power Shifts With Tech
Another Lesson from the Story of Copper Technology itself is not what causes disruption and instability. The disruption comes from what happens around the technology.
Orcas, Signals, and the Problem of Being Understood When two intelligent beings meet without a shared language, the greatest danger is not aggression.It is misunderstanding.
The First four thought experiments in this chain. Before we go any further, here’s a brief recap of how this thought experiment started—and how we
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Open Source the Future: Why Food, Water, and Healthcare Knowledge Must Belong to Everyone
Open the Knowledge or Admit the System Is a Lie Capitalism, regulated trade, markets—fine.I’m not here to argue against exchange or incentive. Capitalism is very
I see it now—finally, more people are coming around to the idea that the great lizards were a lot more bird than they were lizard.