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These may or may not be useful in your daily life Σκῶρ ἀείνων, “ever-flowing shit” (Ar. Frogs, 145-6) ὁ τῆς διαροίας ποταμὸς, “river of diarrhea” (Ar. Fr. 150.3) σφυράδων πολλῶν ἀναμεστ…

Some technologies are more important than others – indeed, some are life or death. Technological progress is not a mystical force that delivers the most important ones first. Some problems are hard to solve, and won't make you much money even if you succeed, and don't get talked about on the

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Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

Tressie McMillan Cottom recently offered a neat little summary of how universities have responded to generative AI: "Academics initially lost our minds over the obvious threats to academic integrity. Then a mysterious thing happened. The typical higher education line on A.I. pivoted from alarm to augmentation. We need to

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The only correct way to interview This Guy has never been tried.

We all have the power to name ourselves—collectively, not individually

The widespread assumption that leaders should prioritize business growth is a factor in global environmental degradation.

What could go wrong?

The rapid progress of the last few centuries was not a fluke.

Drift Signal #255

"There are two kinds of order in society. It’s time we stopped glorifying and overestimating one, and ignoring the reality, or discounting the marvels, ...

Running a small business is tough. It's so unpredictable that most people have to run them as side projects alongside their day jobs, and you can't really quit your day job (with all its healthcare and predictable checks coming in each month) until your small biz is running so well

The Supreme Court has long held banishment as unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment.

And Democrats not only don't have the same network, but they don't seem interested in building one.

The words we use matter. So let's say what's actually happening.

I carry coal company scrip in a little zipper pouch in my wallet everywhere I go. It’s a few little coins, with holes punched in them. I bought them from

The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.

When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that should’ve happened many …

Every system that frustrates your customer also dulls your brand. Every rule that makes no sense becomes a barrier to trust. And every moment that feels disconnected chips away at your credibility.

Imagine that all of us—all of society—have landed on some alien planet and need to form a government: clean slate. We do not have any legacy systems from the United States or any other country. We do not have any special or unique interests to perturb our thinking. How would we govern ourselves? It is unlikely that we would use the systems we have today. Modern representative democracy was the best form of government that eighteenth-century technology could invent. The twenty-first century is very different: scientifically, technically, and philosophically. For example, eighteenth-century democracy was designed under the assumption that travel and communications were both hard...