Life
On Free Speech vs. Religious Respect: in five sentences
Either people believe in free speech or they don’t. Some cultures do,…
Culture
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9 ways to understand how ideas spread
A reader named Niko, who is working on a PhD in social…
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Life
How to understand the media (Review of The Influencing Machine)
We often talk about “the media” as if it were as singular…
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Life
How to discuss politics with friends, version 1
My good friends Royal Winchester, Rob Lefferts and I like to talk about things. Eventually…
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Work
How to Use Bad Data for Good
There are ways to intentionally use bad data to discover important things. In…
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Missing maps and the fragility of technology
Recently Tim O’Reilly wrote about how using maps on his phone, and…
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Life
The unavoidable power of compromise
Anyone who makes progress in this world makes compromises. In the case…
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Life
Arrogance vs. Confidence: what’s the difference?
A long running debate in my own mind is the difference between…
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Life
When is good data impossible?
I was thinking recently about skepticism in small sample sizes. How its…
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The death of death? (the premature cliche of killing an idea)
To say an idea, or a technology, is dead, mostly reveals an…
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Comment of the week
A privilege of having a popular blog is sometimes smart people come by and…