It’s been a relatively slow first half of the year, thanks in part to a busier-than-normal work year for me on the consulting front. Not counting administrative posts, we’ve had 19 “real” posts so far.
Outside of publishing, we did manage to put out the The Art of Longform blogging course though (check it out, $100 for for a solid 6+ hours of video material with plenty of collateral).
We also did the 2018 Refactor Camp on Cryptoeconomics in Austin. I wrote up a glimpse of backstage stuff in the 2018 Annual Letter.
Here’s the roundup, organized by author. Happy 4th of July to US readers!
- Near-Deathness (6/21/2018)
- The Unapologetic Case For Bullshit (1/18/2018)
- Symmetry and Identity (4/19/2018)
- (Don’t) Be the Gray man (2/1/2018)
- Justifiable AI (3/13/2018)
- Glitches, uh, find a way (1/25/2018)
- Notes on Doing Things (5/10/2018)
- Luxuriating in Privacy (3/1/2018)
- The Well-Being Machine (6/12/2018)
- Justice Fantasies (2/8/2018)
- Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences (1/11/2018)
- Deep Laziness (4/6/2018)
- Reality Maintenance (5/29/2018)
- Chekov’s Gun and the Principle of Sufficient Reason (6/14/2018)
- Make Your Own Rules (2/15/2018)
- Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre (4/24/2018)
- The Key to Act Two (3/29/2018)
- A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars (3/6/2018)
- Boat Stories (1/9/2018)
My favorite so far has been the make your own rules article. Some of the other ones were thought provoking as well, but this one really captures the essence of some of the self-help stuff that is coming up, and is quite pertinent. A lot of times I have the feeling that some of these rules are quite arbitrary and could be replaced by a myriad of other rules. I have had this feeling ever since I skimmed “The 48 Laws of Power” back in the day. The lessons are interesting, but I felt that at times they were cherry picked and applied for particular situations. That’s also the case with all the other “rules” books. Doesn’t mean that at some point I won’t write my own “rules”, just that everything should be taken with a grain of salt.
I’m surprised “The Key to Act Two” isn’t higher. Maybe I’m the only person hitting 40.
This is not a ranked list. Just grouped by author and then in reverse chronological order.
Already losing my cognitive skills.