Economics

Quantified self Instrumentation and analytics for body and soul. Punk DIY precision medicine. 2022-01-11 – 2023-04-24
Cheap talk Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc 2020-02-01 – 2023-04-11
Cohousing in Australia Plus other low-cost, low-tedium options for secure habitation somewhere 2021-09-25 – 2023-04-10
Fashion Theory and practice of hip garments 2020-07-10 – 2023-03-27
When to argue ad hominem Skin in the game, vested interests, overt and covert prejudices, lived experience, Dunning-Kruger outgroup effects, genealogy of knowledge, aetiology, donatism, genealogy of knowledge 2020-02-01 – 2023-01-28
Weaponizing social media Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape 2019-10-21 – 2023-01-15
Fediverse Mastodon et al. 2019-08-12 – 2022-12-28
Sufficiently good hedonism Tractable trade-offs between limited time and limited cash and limited imagination for the most happiness 2020-06-23 – 2022-11-08
Bio marker tracking We are probably not going to optimize ourselves out of mortality, but it feels good to try nonetheless 2022-01-11 – 2022-11-07
But what can I do? Recommended behaviour to make society better is to think, then act 2020-02-06 – 2022-11-06
Emancipating my tribe Inclusivism and exclusivism in sacred and secular subcultures. Or, scaling up the in-group. 2021-12-20 – 2022-11-01
Akrasia Description to come later 2017-06-18 – 2022-10-09
Squads Small scale collectives 2022-06-25 – 2022-09-25
Innovation Side order of progress studies now I guess 2014-07-27 – 2022-09-24
Managing people Making piece with the fact that I cannot do everything myself 2020-07-19 – 2022-08-30
Project management With special attention to speculative and innovative projects 2021-03-23 – 2022-08-28
Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2022-08-26
Technological singularities Incorporating hard AI take-offs, game-over high scores, the technium, deus-ex-machina, deus-ex-nube, nerd raptures and so forth 2016-12-01 – 2022-08-10
Urbanism Stuff about cities 2014-12-25 – 2022-08-06
Futurism Useful ways of imaginatively forecasting 2014-12-31 – 2022-08-06
Economic inequality Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature 2014-10-29 – 2022-08-06
Trapped beliefs Thinking now what made sense then 2022-04-09 – 2022-08-06
Community governance Coordinating human beings by application of social force 2020-02-02 – 2022-08-05
Microstressors Asymmetric interactions in aggregate, microinequity, microaggressions 2020-02-01 – 2022-07-28
Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-07-28
Subculture dynamics Coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-26
Being stroppy For people too perverse to be contrarian like everyone else 2022-03-04 – 2022-07-06
Moral wetware What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate? 2020-04-27 – 2022-06-30
Workhacks How to succeed in business (with or without trying) 2020-07-19 – 2022-06-14
Institutions Stable orbits in human systems 2014-10-29 – 2022-06-10
Memetics Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc 2020-01-30 – 2022-05-14
Voting Systems Mathematics and economics of ballots 2014-09-22 – 2022-04-21
Diversity in society Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic 2017-02-19 – 2022-02-13
DIY Artisanal poverty, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms 2018-03-26 – 2022-01-20
Bounded rationality Plus miscellaneous rationality postulates restricting von Neumann-Morgenstern 2012-01-13 – 2022-01-15
Social psychology Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated? 2017-02-20 – 2022-01-14
Standards hell Lock-in, QWERTY, coordination problems etc 2015-01-05 – 2022-01-11
Group size Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination 2011-12-09 – 2022-01-02
Science for policy Using evidence and reason to govern ourselves 2011-08-07 – 2021-09-22
Governance of the commons On the mysterious fact that most people get on with most of their neighbours most of the time 2014-10-29 – 2021-09-02
Community Engineering, maintaining, organizing… 2020-02-02 – 2021-07-29
Science History, sociology and philosophy thereof 2017-07-08 – 2021-07-21
Media virality Strategic modelling for content creators 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-15
Bureaucracy Iron Laws and Moral Mazes 2020-02-02 – 2021-07-08
The simplest thing Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering 2020-02-03 – 2021-04-27
Solarpunk A tomorrow worth retiring to 2019-10-29 – 2020-10-15
Productivity schemes If you can tell me why this placeholder post from 2014 is still consistently in my top 10 most popular posts I would be grateful 2014-10-09 – 2020-06-05
Sneakernets Intermittent connectivity, mesh networks and the Honda protocol 2015-10-03 – 2019-09-09
Hollow states Skim government when fat cats drank the cream 2019-03-13
Evidential decision theory I know that you know what I think you know about what we all know about people who write about strong AI online. 2018-10-24