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Ruins Everywhere and Nowhere
Grandiose, abandoned, fictional buildings are a superstimulus 🏚
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Things I Learned From Ranking 1000 Historical Rulers
History ends up feeling repetitive when you look at all of it superficially 🫅
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Chinese Noodles, Swedish Tacos, and Other Authenticity Puzzles
On food, categories, and being tricked 🥡
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Common Tech Jobs Described as Cabals of Mesoamerican Wizards
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Remaining Ambitious
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Reinvent the Wheel
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Nothing Is Inherently Obvious
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The Inevitable, Awkward Post About Money
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Somehow I Trust the Flip-Floppers More
Frequent changes of mind don't make you interesting but they can be good anyway 🩴
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Nothing More Powerful Than the Anti-Cultishness Cult
False accusations of cultishness reinforce more than they weaken 🌚
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What Will I Find in San Francisco?
Thoughts on cities that loom too large 🌉
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Charting a Course of Study in Neuroaesthetics
And why I think the neural basis of beauty is important 🧠
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A Techno-Historical Analogy in Which YOU Are the Hero
How would you, some Homo erectus guy, respond to the invention of on-demand fire? 🔥
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Pre-Nostalgia in the Late Pre-AI Era
Our world is ending and that makes me both sad and glad 🌃
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Scientific Writing Is a Miserable Grind, So Let's Outsource It to AI
Very little of the science publishing process is valuable ⚗️
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