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I’ve been rereading the work of my internet friends Luke Burgis recently. His hugely influential book Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life introduced popular culture to philosopher Rene Girard. I’d first encountered Girard at university and through Peter Thiel’s influence pursued further understanding of the work thanks to Luke’s scholarship on the topic. A quick […]
When I was younger I would try to demonstrate my cleverness by pointing out problems. Like many precocious youngsters, I was certain that this behavior provided value. It’s exciting to feel the power that comes with understanding. It is especially intoxicating to students. No one is so fervent as a new convert. Finding errors in […]
I’m writing this in the waiting room of the new hospital campus in Bozeman. We’ve recently had an outpost of the Billings Clinic go up alongside the highway between Bozeman and Belgrade to keep up with the growth in Southwest Montana. It’s really nice and absolutely packed with people. The average age looks to be […]
I love science fiction. The current generation building artificial intelligence builds on decades of thought experiments (aka science fiction) on how we might responsibly build and interact with a machine intelligence. So it’s exciting watching testable premises arise that give hope that what is being built can be done so in ways that reflect our […]
It’s been a bad month for me. It seems like a bad month in general. But that’s February for you right? It’s a thumbs down kind of month. I’ve enjoyed the nonstop snow but we’ve finally gone above freezing. As the sun melts down our power into icicles I’ll try not to dwell on the […]
Watching institutional powers and public figures goes through the Kübler-Ross grief cycle as they grapple with technical and political change sucks. People are all over the place. Institutional distrust from the public has America and Europe at odds just as our geopolitical position relative to China is most precarious. And yet this strange new world […]
Almost two years ago I sent a Twitter DM to a young founder named Isaiah. He was intellectual, curious and humble and I was impressed by his authenticity. He was strong enough and driven enough to ask for hard feedback. So I told him the truth when he asked. I hated his first idea, gave […]
I am pushing myself to continue with the daily writing habit even as I am on a rollercoaster of health and home challenges that have put me well on the back foot. I want to rage against the symptoms, the system that can’t solve anything, and even my own body for being tricky. But that […]
We are all avoiding reality to some measure. Be grateful that our egos can cushion the horrors of the world at all. I’m unsure how removed one can be from reality anymore but as an American I’ll probably one of the last to find out. Rationalist and all-around Twitter in-group personality Aella went on a […]
When we first moved to Montana we did a pretty thorough home inspection. My husband flew in a friend who is residential contractor. We didn’t need much remediation work. A bit of radon and we installed a state of the art water filtering system but otherwise everything from foundations to soil quality were looking good. […]