Sitemap - 2025 - Manuscriptions
🎂 It's My Birthday, Please Comment!
🌪️ Do Crises Really "Reveal" Character?
🌲 The Best "Gamified X" App is a GAME
🌲 Go Rogue. Change Direction. Produce Better Work.
🎓 When Perseverance Gets People Pointlessly Killed
🎓 Neat Stuff I Saw in Harper's Ferry, WV
📚 Neat Stuff I Read in September 2025
🌲 The Konik Method for Organizing Electronic Notes
📚 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
🎓 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