institutions

The simplest thing Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering 2020-02-03 – 2023-12-06
Moral wetware What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate? 2020-04-27 – 2023-12-05
Bureaucracy Iron Laws and Moral Mazes 2020-02-02 – 2023-10-07
Misrule, punks and ravers Peasantpunk, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget, metis farming, the feast of fools in suburbia, crusty rituals for the churchless, oxytocin fixes, mock chivalric orders, squads 2018-03-26 – 2023-09-26
Cohousing in Australia Plus other low-cost, low-tedium options for secure habitation 2021-09-25 – 2023-09-15
Community Engineering, maintaining, organizing… 2020-02-02 – 2023-08-09
Doing it yourself Peasantpunk, artisanal poverty, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms 2018-03-26 – 2023-08-08
Science; Institution design for “Scientist, falsify thyself”. Peer review, academic incentives, credentials, evidence and funding… 2020-05-17 – 2023-08-07
Community governance Coordinating human beings by collective application of social force 2020-02-02 – 2023-08-06
Algorithmic mechanism design Designing markets and games to achieve what we collectively want from what we individually want 2014-09-22 – 2023-08-01
Bio marker tracking We are probably not going to optimize ourselves out of mortality, but it feels good to try nonetheless 2022-01-11 – 2023-07-18
Research discovery Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2023-06-06
Squads Small scale collectives 2022-06-25 – 2022-09-25
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
Urbanism Stuff about cities 2014-12-25 – 2022-08-06
Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-07-28
Invasive arguments Inflammatory topics, toxplasmic incidents. Weeds in public discourse 2021-12-20 – 2022-06-25
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
Diversity in society Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic 2017-02-19 – 2022-02-13
Standards hell Lock-in, QWERTY, coordination problems etc 2015-01-05 – 2022-01-11
Science History, sociology and philosophy thereof 2017-07-08 – 2021-07-21
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
Hollow states Skim government when fat cats drank the cream 2019-03-13