Why you should read this This essay is long. As far as I can find, there is little patient-facing writing that puts egg freezing, embryo banking and stimulation protocols all in one place. Most of what exists is heavy on narrative and light on data. I tried to write
The Romans built aqueducts stretching hundreds of miles in less time than it takes to permit an outbuilding in California — and their aqueducts actually held water Monday, January 13, 2025 The Pacific Ocean is seen in the distance beyond palm trees and the charred remains of homes destroyed by
What do you think one man and a few ‘based’ people can do against hundreds of rotting bureaucracies? Monday, November 4, 2024 For some of us, watching newly minted Republican tech bros giddy at the thought of a Trump win fills us with a painful nostalgia. There’
Twitter commentators claimed as much after technology entrepreneurs demanded a Federal bailout of Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”). This bank, which provided financial services to ~50 percent of all US venture-backed tech and life science companies, had taken customer deposits and invested them into what are supposed to
Escaping the Malibu Longhouse: A Review of Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" When IM—1776 invited me to write a review of the new Barbie movie, my first impulse was to decline. I watch a couple of movies a year, usually under duress, on account of my
A Tour Through Friedrich Nietzsche's Favorite Cities and Walks “Friedrich Nietzsche knew the fullness of spirit that tempts the unknown; the Will to Power that drives the hero.” — Plaque at Piazza Carlo Alberto , Turin “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” —
America was built on freedom. A freedom that descends from painstakingly crafted documents that defined an objective: to protect the individual from systems that could encroach their natural rights. These ideas were put forward by minds lost to the myths of history. The Federalist Papers were written by pseudonymous polymaths
With access to data and compute allowing for demonstrable breakthroughs in machine learning, what role does Moore’s Law play for those working in software? How does data science and machine learning contribute to Moore’s Law continuation? What does technology progress look like in practice?
Did you ever read Thoreau’s Walden ? In the book, Thoreau lays out his 2 year adventure cutting himself off from society and living in woodland owned by his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. It’s an amazing tale of seclusion, self-sufficiency, introspection and personal growth. It'
In February 2022, Jim Keller organized a scientific anarchism event in Woodside, California. Scientific anarchism, a term borrowed from the controversial philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend, concerns the way science is performed in the laboratory and the way that ideas are generated, refuted, and incorporated into the accepted scientific body
Science, philosophy and doing whatever you want. Other Life Show - Recorded March 2022
Should we be shocked that people believe irrational things? Not really. We bombard children with information before we teach them how to think critically. It’s a daily mass murder of malleable mindsets. Since I can remember, I’ve contemplated that perhaps I might just be an imposter,
We would do better for the world spreading critical reasoning tools than raising endless sums of capital to be fluttered around. Last month, I was asked to present at a Silicon Valley conference focused around ‘Strategy’. This gave me hope, as strategy seems to be one of the
They asked me if I wanted to see the body. I wasn't sure what they meant. There was my father- who a few days before I had been shouting at to try and fight harder- crumpled, small, wrapped up in a white sheet. The rigor mortis of his
The West is dying and we are killing her. We’re proud to destroy our own freedoms and repackage failure as democratic progress. We champion our rolling-out of red tape, the bureaucratic creep that strangles a nation’s liberty. The American Dream has been replaced by mass-