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Jun 14 Two Types of Hard Things
Feb 16 Intelligence vs. Intellectual Work
Jan 18 Career Advice for My 20-Year-Old Self
Dec 13 Things You're Allowed to Do
Dec 7 Links: October–November 2023
Dec 5 Book Review: The Laws of Trading
Dec 4 New Blog, Who Dis
Sep 12 Los Angeles
Apr 28 Simple Ways to Maximize Charitable Donations
Mar 23 Cracks in Reality
Mar 2 What I’ve Been Doing Instead of Writing
Jul 21 Fuck Hakuna Matata
Jun 9 Book Review: The Fourth Turning
Jun 1 An Insurance Policy for American Collapse: Obtaining an EU Passport
May 30 When Tether Blows Up
Mar 6 We Need a New Story
Jan 12 Be Clever and Lazy
Jan 9 We Moved to Austin
Dec 21 The Value of the NFT Bundle
Dec 13 You Already Live In the Metaverse
Oct 17 Extremism Beats Moderation
Oct 6 Getting a Crypto Job
Sep 22 Stop Feeding the Dragon
Aug 30 You're Not Too Late
Aug 17 Up in the Air
Aug 16 Book Review: Barbarian Days
Jun 18 How to Buy a Car
Jun 3 On Boxing
May 16 Your Life as Financial Derivatives
May 4 East Coast Early Bird, West Coast Night Owl
Mar 27 Creation vs. Consumption
Mar 11 GameStop 2: Electric Boogaloo
Feb 14 Quotes on Writing
Feb 10 The Intoxicating Appeal of Cults
Jan 25 The Battle of GameStop
Jan 18 An Ode to Chess
Jan 11 Peacetime vs. Wartime COVID Response
Jan 4 The Local Maxima Trap
Dec 12 On Travel
Dec 7 Labor Market Arbitrage
Dec 2 A Quick Update
Sep 3 On Original Thoughts
Aug 24 City of Blinding Lights
Aug 8 Don't Go to College Right Now
Jul 26 You Can't Have It All
May 27 Bloody but Unbowed
Mar 29 Links of the Week
Mar 25 Coronavirus – Update from NYC
Mar 15 Coronavirus – Report from NYC