Handwaving Freakoutery

Leading the debate and discussion on how business, finance, and technology industries drive prosperity and improve the human condition.

A guide to navigating the Digital Age

A free to use fantasy tabletop roleplaying game setting for Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, and similar games.

A portal to the next regime

AI/ML, crypto, speech, power

A place for research notes on civil wars, low intensity conflicts, collapsing empires, and how populations have navigated conflicts between war and peace.

a mix of anti-Woke cultural commentary, personal reflections, and a regular creative writing feature

Neo-Gonzo rhetoric and social dynamics

An ongoing inquiry into the ideological fever that overtook the governing and chattering classes of America during the Trump years

Conversations questioning our current sanity level as a species.

Notorious for her undercover research and street activism, Erin Smith uses her hard-won experience to deliver timely and insightful analysis of the current political upheaval and civil unrest.

Keep up to date about The Stoa.

sex, psychedelics, and social analysis

Turning the big details of complex ideas into a "smol" picture using surprisingly delightful autistic pedantry and nuance.

Black viewpoint diversity

A newsletter about science, social-justice-activism, why they sometimes fight, and how to help them get along better -- plus a good deal of other, more random stuff.

Underexplored Research Topics

cool but rude

The world's most famous whistleblower writes from exile on the intersection of technology, humanity, and power.

Why buildings are built the way they are.

Lukewarm Takes on Modern Life from a Regular Human in a World Gone Mad

Creator of The Martyr Made Podcast, and The Unraveling w/Jocko Willink

Salient posts on the "Green Leap Forward" - the social and economic drive to rapidly change the world's energy consumption with analysis into the potential unintended consequences and negative downstream effects of such rapid changes.

Society (progress & regress), technology (deep and light), and exploration.

An increasing proportion of the industrial surplus is being absorbed by the task of masking bio-social deterioration

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

No filter science

Scottish independence. Economic left. Geopolitics. Technology.

Using moral psychology to explain why so much is going wrong

See the world as it is, not as you wish it to be. Everything else is application.