Best of 2021 part 2!
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Happy New Year—Weekly Wisdom
Category: Somethings
Archive of all my newsletters
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Best of 2021(part 1)—Weekly Wisdom
From different ways to get stabbed to the cruelties of online mobs. I share the best of the year
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Officially Old—Weekly Wisdom
Also, how all businesses turn into banks, the failure of GDP as a metric, Piracy as an access solution, and what to do in a knife fight.
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Style is Substance—Weekly Wisdom
Also, how quack theories survive, the benefits of rapid covid testing, the buoyancy of old age, and why is everything liberal.
Marshall McLuhan was right! Also, the time the US defaulted, credibility in the social sciences, the fog of politics, and David Foster Wallace on humility.
Also, how BBQ went from scraps to gold, the power of stories, how to be better at predictions, and how block chain is trash.
Also the dehumanizing nature of photographs, the state of US electoral politics, China’s state power, the incentives that made the internet and how to engage online.
NEW FORMAT! Also, on love, the metaverse, the dark side of fame and the trap of commodification.
Also, the connection bet writing and reading, and a description of the moral panic around cancel culture.
“Of all the unimportant things, [sport] is the most important.” – Pope John Paul II (supposedly)