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May 2025

So You're Interviewing With An Early-Stage Startup
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." - Ernest Hemingway
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Demanding Justice, Not Tolerating Abuse
The moment we stop confusing survival strategies with moral obligations the world can start to change.
Adapting to a Shifting World and Government Job Cuts
Things once true, won’t always be. My conjecture is that people on average lack curiosity, once they establish something, they don’t ask many questions…
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The Darth Pope of Alcatraz
I haven’t read the book, but I assume Ancient History: 4500 BCE to 500 CE Essentials by Gordon Patterson may skip some parts of that 5000 year time…
The Marshmallow Trap: Why Our Bias for Action is Burning Us Out
You spoke up in the meeting? Marshmallow. You posted a long Slack update with five bullet points and a hasty plan? Marshmallow.

April 2025

The 'Idea Guy' Craves AI, Perhaps In More Than One Way
Listen, who among us hasn’t created an AI chatbot employee and tried to fuck it? I mean, I haven’t, because I’m normal, but like, any of us could’ve…
The Work Of Clouding Discourse
To know one chaos goblin is to know them all, because whatever factors created them, they all operate from the same playbook.
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TikTok, AI, War, and Tariffs The Ads Will Follow You 'Till The Bitter End
TikTok might stick around for years, but it’ll be kept on a leash, a few months at a time, just like the sweeping tariffs that may never fully happen
Ken Klippenstein Is Wrong About Jeffrey Goldberg's Reporting, At Least This Time
Pathological narcissists don’t seek the truth—they manipulate reality to protect their fragile egos, beating them takes playing a stupid game.
Luigi Mangione Or At Least Some Vigilante
Trump is acting no less outside the law than Mangione or whoever gunned down the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

March 2025

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