Thinking Fast and Slow with the Brain Modules You’ve Got
Over and Under thinking On my walk this morning I was talking to my friend and linguist, Luke Wakefield, and I had an insight. For most of my life…
Filed underepistemology
Reading Balaji Srinivasan In This Gutenberg Moment
I discovered Balaji Srinivasan last march. He was on Tim Ferris’ podcast. He’s a biochemist by training and a serial entrepreneur most recently with Coinbase. I was struck by…
Book Chapter
I wrote a thing that’s going to be in this book. “What Job is a Conspiracy Theory Doing? Why American Christians are Particularly Vulnerable to the Narratives of the…
What Job is a Conspiracy Theory Doing?
Saturday morning, I saw a post from my friend, Brandon, who lives in Manhattan, the early epicenter of the pandemic in the US. It showed a scrawled subway wall note…
Do Americans need to see videos of COVID killing us before we take collective action?
Last week in California a 51 year old man died of COVID the day after expressing regret for attending a barbeque with friends. One person went who wasn’t showing symptoms and…