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We haven't gotten the age of kings (and popes and emperors and unitary executives and other autocrats) out of our system yet
We got rid of kings only 250 years ago. We worshipped them for at least 5,000 years before that, probably longer; I don't think we've totally gotten…
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Reading is not dead!
Surprisingly, I have something in common with Kai Cenat, and it's not livestreaming (I don't), or being famous (I'm not); it's reading (I do).
Jan 24
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Old beliefs and new realities
Dinosaurs didn't exist 200 years ago, or rather, 200 years ago we didn't know that dinosaurs had existed. We're still trying to absorb that reality.
Jan 19
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How greed became good, in five books
I did a five-books post for Shepherd as I'm testing a new book-discovery platform.
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What Andor left out: the real problem with the Empire isn't the evil
Andor (kind of) explains Earth-bound problems, and it's not about the resistance.
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'The Almightier' Podcast Tour
Last week I taped a couple of podcasts, one of which dropped over the weekend, and I thought it would be worth a post to just put the links and…
Dec 5, 2025
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Call it a living wage, call it $140,000; at least we (finally) understand each other
Michael Green deserves credit for his attempt to define a living wage, but the idea is not new or revolutionary
Dec 1, 2025
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Yeah, wages lag inflation, that's not hard to see; what's hard to see is why
Money is a myth. People are real. But we value money above people's welfare. That’s the miscalculation that's screwing up everything.
Nov 30, 2025
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I think I found a way to keep up with the news and not drive myself crazy
The great thing about newspapers, real, physical newspapers, is they give you the world, and then let you walk away from it. That's the total opposite…
Nov 18, 2025
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Stigmergy and how we turned money into a religion
Recently, a group of evolutionary biologists studied colonies of a stingless bee in Brazil and discovered that different groups had distinct methods of…
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