The year of not giving up
The most important lessons I learned in 2025
Chad Mazzola
Writing by Chad Mazzola
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Who Needs Foundations?
I’m thinking about cryptocurrency, but also everything else.
Dick jokes
What to do when you realize things aren’t the way they ought to be.
Endless forms most beautiful
A meditation on my place in the universe.
Self as Process
Rust Cohle and thoughts on the self.
Getting started with complexity science
A handful of online courses, books and other resources to start learning about the field of complexity science.
Technologies of the Self: A Short Introduction
One of Michel Foucault’s late interests provides a framework for understanding self-transformation and meaning-making.
Hereditary
The true horror of Ari Aster’s Hereditary.
Confronting the burden of consciousness
How to deal.
What happened to ebook innovation?
Pervasive DRM and closed ecosystems mean the possibilities of ebooks are nowhere near fully realized.
Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect
A meditation on wabi-sabi.
Creative work cannot be managed
Traditional management strategies are useless for problems that require creative thinking.
The advantages of design in the 21st century
Looking at Bruno Latour’s, ‘A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design’.
The Design of Design
An overview of several main ideas from Fred Brooks’ book The Design of Design.