Delete Facebook

How to safely delete Facebook from your life

Personal Stuff | May 30th, 2020
Step-by-step instructions for freeing yourself.
octopus

Spending time as an octopus

Personal Stuff | May 18th, 2020
I'm trying.
Sandstorm in desert national park Altyn-Emel, Kazakhstan

My responsibility to the storm

Culture | March 22nd, 2020
Reflections on my own conduct during difficult times.
Newton's Gravity

Open-minded

Science | March 10th, 2020
An examination of what it means to be "open-minded" in science.
Mitochondria

Purpose

Philosophy | March 6th, 2020
How does purpose happen in a spiritless world?
Road Rage

Stupid idiots

Philosophy | March 5th, 2020
Who do we blame when systems break down?

Objective Function

Philosophy, Politics | March 4th, 2020
Making complex decisions in a multidimensional world.
Greg Stevens 2019

Gap year: 2019

Personal Stuff | December 31st, 2019
What happened to 2019?

Some thoughts about the “expectation of privacy”

Culture | July 28th, 2018
It's a weaselly little phrase.

Using biology to understand polling data

Philosophy | July 8th, 2018
...even when the results don't seem to make sense.

What happened when I called conservatives vermin

Politics | June 25th, 2018
Spoiler: They missed the point entirely.

Motivation and control

Science | June 21st, 2018
How do we cope with things about ourselves that we can't change?

Self-censorship and the society of mind

Culture | June 17th, 2018
The idea of self-censorship is rooted in a tangled mess of assumptions.

“They have their statue, why can’t we have ours?”

Culture | January 14th, 2018
A look at how policy shapes culture.

This is how feudalism starts

History, Politics | January 6th, 2018
The conditions that produced feudalism in the middle ages are eerily familiar.
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