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June 2025

📚 Stoicism & the Cobra Effect in The Folding Knife by K. J. Parker
A spoilerific reflection on a book Patrick McKenzie called "the best low-fantasy public health writing you'll ever read."
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🌲 The Fastest Way to Learn Depends on Circumstance
What desert engineering and Paul Atriedes can teach us about tacit knowlege.
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🏵️ What aloe, flax, & silica gel taught me about timing
On supply chains, spiders, and screwing up spaghetti sauce.
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🌲 Familiarity with the Western Canon is Surprisingly Reassuring
It's amazing how much modern conservative rhetoric sounds like Augustus and Chesterton.
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May 2025

🏵️ Daydreaming is Valuable & so are Classics
On the value of personalization, planning, pretend -- and giant tortoises.
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🏵️ Judgment > Generation, & a question about Roman swords
The spread of human technology & knowledge throughout history is a fascinating, perennially relevant topic.
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📚 Reading Roundup: Chunky Books
Micro reviews of longform stuff I read recently. Mostly fiction, some non.
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🎓 Complaints about immodesty go way back
A discussion of sumptuary laws and clothing critiques, mostly focused on Greco-Roman and Crusader cultures.
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📚 Fear, War, & God: Post-Rationalist Philosophy... in SPAAAAAACE
A Review of the War Dogs Trilogy by Greg Bear
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April 2025

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