The Snail Shell

(feel free to apply Betteridge's Law ) (also: note that I discuss nonexistence, and suicide in passing, and if you'd rather not re...

Subtitle: I've probably explained all this already but money has such an effect on our world that I feel compelled to get my thoughts d...

(the megastar being David Byrne.) Tour's coming to Oakland and San Jose. Oakland's easy to get to, San Jose a bit farther. I hea...

(Spoilers for season 4 all over the place!) I watch Black Mirror for a couple reasons. I don't really need it to get depressed; I can...

Three famous, influential, VC/tech guys: Sam Altman: this Anil Dash: this Benedict Evans: this ... and it devolves from there. A weir...

Specifically this one: " Millennials are screwed " I don't have a ton to add, and it's got the annoying scrolly whizban...

Statsteraunt Okay, you know how sometimes there's a "M.P." on fancy menus? "Market Price." For a lobster or somet...

A few stories, and forgive me if I'm repeating myself: 1. Greg Boyle :  A really cool interview with Fr. Greg Boyle , a Jesuit priest...

Something is wrong on the internet by James Bridle He tells an interesting, and weird, and interesting-because-it's-weird true sto...

this was awesome . shout out to todd, ram, and aaron. dj jazzy jeff gordon ramsay snow white walker texas ranger rick james franco harris...

I heard an interview with a guy from an organization called the Proud Boys. In the most charitable words, they want to promote "tradit...

Housing: recent Econ Talk about it . Housing's an issue here in SF, of course, but also throughout the country. Name a wealthy, in-dema...

I mean, logging that I went camping, not that I went camping and also cutting down trees. It was fun! Here are some photos . The place we...

An old Radiolab about the Trolley Problem and they did brain scans and stuff, and it proves that people have an innate morality! they'r...

Things I like a lot: - All of Janelle Shane's work with neural networks (paint colors, D&D spells, beer varieties - if you read a...

Particularly, when someone tries to tell you a thing that seems complicated is actually simple, be wary. This happens in TED talks, Malco...

( Amazon Mechanical Turk ) By this I mean, I want someone else to be able to call me up and say "call City Supervisor X and say ...

(or maybe I should say "neoliberalism" to get more clicks :P) Ok, super-extreme capitalism seems to say, markets will solve eve...

where X = a Ferrari or a beach vacation or whatever else thinking about this after seeing an ad for a vacation package at a beach resort ...

I'm finding that I'm organizing life around cleaning up. Get things into a queue, then get them out of that queue. Another way to t...