I’ve been sick for the last week and a half or so, so this round-up is coming on the last day of 2023.
As you may have gathered from my title schema, I have been writing every single day for 1095 straight days.
That means I’ve been doing this for three years which is a satisfying achievement. If you’d like see my favorite posts of 2021 here is a link to my first year round up. My round up for the second year of writing in 2022 was quite comprehensive as well.
Below is a list of categories that held my attention in 2023 and the posts I wrote as I tried to make sense of my rapidly changing world.
It probably tells you a lot that the largest sections are artificial intelligence, startups and community. I think this includes almost 50 posts so it’s a testament to how busy the year was that I couldn’t narrow it further. I spent time in Prague, Puerto Vallarta, New York City, Austin, Seattle, Frankfurt, Tallinn, Helsinki, and Amsterdam which is way more travel than I expected. Much of my focus was on investing work for chaotic.capital and is reflected across almost all categories.
Artificial Intelligence
Day 1078 Why We Keep Centering Ourselves
Day 1072 and Math is Leverage.
1055 and Freedom to Compute
Day 989 and Autopoeitic Ergodicity
Day 980 and Beff Jezos
Day 897 and Cruft and Email Bankruptcy
Day 826 and Alignment
Day 780 and Copernican Crisis of Meaning
Community
Day 1070 and Allocating Social Capital
Day 1055 and Shipping, Smoothing Narratives and Making Reality or Effective Acceleration Is About Choice
Day 1053 and Neo Revivalism
1033 and Agency Explosion & The Network State
Day 1025 and Petit Aristocracy
Day 978 and The Great Twitter Unfollowing
Day 932 and Schisms
Day 847 and Erasure in Crypto
Aesthetics
Day 1040 and Being First
Day 1023 and Automatic Doors
Day 1007 and Half A Decade After Premium Mediocrity
Day 961 and Repeating 2003 Aesthetics.
Day 748 and Molly Millions (William Gibson Casting Choices)
Travel
Day 1038 and Travel, Middle Markets & American Exceptionalism
Day 1030 and Helsinki
Day 1029 and Nordic Ferries
Day 1019 and Old Town Tallinn
Day 876 and Americana in Germany
Day 863 and Abstract The Pain Away
Day 749 and Beef in Prague
Economics and Politics
Day 1019 and Tallinn’s Free Enterprise & Alcohol
Day 1010 and Exogenous Shocks
Day 907 and Unaccountable Bureaucracy
Day 904 and Wardogging on Mobile Phones
Day 817 and Mourning A Bank
Day 811 and Hierarchies
Day 807 and Hyperinflation
Day 803 and Killing Strangers
Day 799 and Black Friday in Silicon Valley
Day 740 and Immigration Failures
Emotional Work
Day 1014 and A Fragile Birthday
Day 1000 and Milestones
Day 987 and Eggs
Day 902 and The Singer Lasts A Season
Day 895 and How to Stop Being An NPC
Day 845 and Fucked Fertility
Day 791 and Bathing Suits I’ve Never Worn
Day 784 and Endocrine
Day 731 and Auld Lang Syne Motherfuckas
Startups
Day 1001 and Circumstances Change
Day 970 and I’ll Be Your Publicist
Day 962 and Milestone Based Seed Rounds
Day 939 and Culture Wins Not Culture Wars
Day 906 and Resilience Tech
Day 840 and Chaos Magic
Day 783 and The Alliance (Vanity Fair Magazine coverage of chaotic.capital which is covered in two pieces on the blog)
Homestead & Montana
Day 976 and Chores
Day 969 and Hot Chicks
Day 958 and Civic Engagement
Day 940 and Buying Dishes
Day 856 and Springing Into Action
Day 766 and Weather Station
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