I’m a student of philosophy, biology, and mathematics.
Professionally, I write software.
Amateur-ly, I read as widely as I can, and write about the things I learn. This website is kinda like my learning journal. You can read the archives below or follow along here.
March 2021
November 2020
June 2020
May 2018
April 2018
- 20: Cardinal rule of internet comments:
- 12: Lolita (first read)
- 02: Paul Graham, Wealth, and Skin in the Game
March 2018
January 2018
- 31: The wound consists precisely in claiming to… –
- 12: The Castle by Kafka
- 11: Scott Alexander on Postmodernism
- 11: Plays and movies
- 10: The Principle of Charity
- 08: SQL Database Design with Yesod and Persistent
- 08: Michael Pollan Debunks Food Myths
- 08: Michael Pollan Debunks Food Myths
- 07: Interview with McKenzie Wark of *A Hacker Manifesto*
- 04: Collective decision making defaults toward stasis
- 03: Naval
December 2017
- 28: The Austrians and the Swan: Birds of a Different Feather by Mark Spitznagel
- 27: The Big Short by Michael Lewis
- 20: Ignac Semmelweiss
- 07: The Merge by Sam Altman
November 2017
- 28: What it’s like to work at WorkFlowy
- 22: Chamath on business strategy
- 18: Haskell is just a DSL for category theory.
- 14: DFTM: Don’t Fear the Manual
October 2017
- 31: Societies of control
- 24: David Mamet
- 24: There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever
- 23: Just own the damn robots.
- 23: Lindy
- 19: Liberty & network effects
- 15: Recursion
- 14: Museums are retirement homes for culture
- 06: Space
- 05: Ship it
September 2017
August 2017
- 24: Haskell vs Clojure
- 24: Salmon salad
- 24: Deleuze’s “universal thought flow”
- 17: Mark Tarver on the Google memo
- 16: Pickle Riiiick
June 2017
- 14: The necessity of lab and research notebooks
- 09: Why Synthetic Protein Research Needs More Funding
- 06: DeLanda Destratified
- 04: How much the culture of learning has changed
May 2017
April 2017
- 01: Clever
March 2017
- 23: Kwame Anthony Appiah and others on hierarchy
- 20: A new machine learning journal
- 06: Memetic selection
- 06: *They Thought They Were Free* by Milton Mayer
- 05: Past times
- 05: Imported archives
- 05: How do you read advanced math texts?
- 03: Edward Tufte keynote: “The Future of Data Analysis”
February 2017
- 10: February Reading
July 2016
May 2016
August 2014
July 2014
June 2014
May 2014
February 2014
January 2014
- 17: From the little…
- 15: Foucault
- 08: Seneca Quotes
- 07: Clojure Resources for Learning, Building, Developing, Experimenting
- 01: Yossarian
July 2013
June 2013
May 2013
- 15: Comparing apples and oranges
- 14: Tolstoy
April 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
- 30: 2012 “Lessons”
July 2012
- 19: Takeaway from the Thiel Under20 Summit: Incredible things can quite certainly be done
- 07: Recent Reading
June 2012
May 2012
- 27: Elon Musk’s determination
- 27: Elon Musk
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
- 29: How not to talk to your kids
- 26: Successful people vs. Failures
- 24: A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
- 16: Lucky or Smart by Bo Peabody — “Smart Enough to Realize I Was Getting Lucky”
- 07: The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco — See the Process Behind the Product
- 06: My Anti-library
- 05: Forget About Black Swans, the One Ahead is Neon
- 03: Atheists, On Why They Don’t Believe In God
- 01: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho — Follow Your Personal Legend
May 2011
April 2011
- 26: Case Study: Two Leaders, One Strategy, Centuries Apart
- 23: I think Russell Brand is my new celebrity hero.
- 18: Christianity and Alcohol
- 15: Entrepreneurship Risk
March 2011
January 2011
- 31: Neil Tyson and the Argument From Ignorance
- 09: Facebook & Video Games: An Introduction to the Narrative Fallacy
October 2010
- 15: Fluid Strategy