Sitemap - 2025 - Manuscriptions

📚 REVIEW: Civilizations of Africa, A History to 1800

🏵️ On Learning About Cultures From Stories

🌲 The Konik Method for Making Analog Notes

📚 Neat Stuff I Read, August 2025 Edition

📚 REVIEW: Empress of the East by Leslie Peirce

🏵️ Improvements come with tradeoffs

🏵️ On Class, Corruption, & Fire

💎 How Claude + Obsidian + MCP Solved My Organizational Problems

🎓 When Royal Marriages Keep Power Inside the Family

📚 Stoicism & the Cobra Effect in The Folding Knife by K. J. Parker

🌲 The Fastest Way to Learn Depends on Circumstance

🏵️ What aloe, flax, & silica gel taught me about timing

🌲 Familiarity with the Western Canon is Surprisingly Reassuring

🏵️ Daydreaming is Valuable & so are Classics

🏵️ Judgment > Generation, & a question about Roman swords

📚 Reading Roundup: Chunky Books

🎓 Complaints about immodesty go way back

📚 Fear, War, & God: Post-Rationalist Philosophy... in SPAAAAAACE

✈️ Field Notes from Florence

🎓 Grafting & Growth: On Trees as Infrastructure

🎓 On Teleportation & Understanding via Writing

📚 On Graphic Novels in the Age of AI

🌲 Why I like Twitter Threads more than Epic Novels

📗 On Testing Hypotheses Instead of Setting Goals

🌲 On Leadership & Legacy: Shockley, Yi, & Brasidas

🎓 Communities who never met IRL are older than you think

🎓 On Agricultural Causes of Societal Catastrophes

🌲 AI cannot replace genuine human connection

🎓 On the Diplomacy of Steppe Princesses

🏃‍♀️ On Achieving Goals By Ignoring Them

📚 On Potatoes, Colonizing Mars, & Human Heroism