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New issue: Economic Reveries

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Economic Reveries

The 8% historical growth rate story is unraveling

New public post rounding out what I’m going to pompously call my January 2023 quartet. Contours of Thawing Time.

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Contours of Thawing Time

The future is sluggishly starting to move again

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Starting to seed a l’il extended science fiction sub-universe on the blog. Hoping to put out at least half-a-dozen bits and pieces of it this year. Bracketverse — I

Bracketverse — I

The planet Kinsoro, in a star system on the edge of the Bracket nebula, had a strange climate marked by long alternating periods of wonderful and terrible climates. Each phase of the climatic cycle…

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Disturbed Realities

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Disturbed Realities

On the psychohistory of reality expansions

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The Permaweird

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There is no polycrisis, only nostalgia for an imagined present

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Logics of Caring

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Logics of Caring

How to care about the world in 2023

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Review thread from Paul Millerd

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Going to do some reflections on Part 1 of @vgr Art of Gig Overall: Best book I've read on consulting by far. Perhaps the only one that really captures the advanced "inner game" of indie and gig life generally Some of my favorite parts

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2022 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Roundup.

2022 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Roundup

Somehow, I feel lowkey cheerful looking back at 2022. It feels like I hit an inflection point in the 15-year history of this blog, after 2-3 years of steadily letting go old ways and wandering in t…

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State of the Studio, 2022:

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State of the Studio 2022

Annual roundup. 50% better than all the other roundups

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New post: Computing as an Infinite Game

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Computing as an Infinite Game

What happens when computers compute to continue the game rather than win?

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New newsletter, Two Black Holes

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Two Black Holes

Where do you go after you've seen the central black hole?

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This week’s newsletter delayed till tomorrow

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New post: Worldwinds

A counter-intuitive feature of wind power is that it is usable regardless of the direction the wind is blowing, so long as it is sufficiently steady and you have the right technology. A windmill th…

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The Dawn of Mediocre Computing

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The Dawn of Mediocre Computing

AI and crypto have achieved mediocre-human parity. Where to now?

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New newsletter. The Muskening, Part 2:

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The Muskening, Part II

Wrapping up the Twitter analysis

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New newsletter. The Art of Gig is Out!

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The Art of Gig is Out!

Announcing my two-volume essay collection

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New post: The Art of Gig Books

The Art of Gig Books

My 2-volume collection of essays about independent consulting and life in the gig economy, The Art of Gig, is finally out. It is available in paperback and Kindle ebook form on Amazon. Art of Gig, …

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New newsletter: The Muskening

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An irresistible force has met an immovable object

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New studio newsletter. Silicon Valley Vibe Shift.

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Silicon Valley Vibe Shift

Layoffs with an attitude + trade war = trouble

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Storytelling — End-Times Tales

Storytelling — End-Times Tales

It is perhaps a bit of a conceit, but I don’t like posting anything on this blog that doesn’t feel timeless. This does not mean ahistorical. In fact, timeless to me means acutely histor…

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New subscriber newsletter: A Territory and a Map

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A Territory and a Map

Field report from Kern County, CA, and draft zeitgeist map

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Newsletter delayed to Saturday this week due to travel

New public studio post. Vivid Abstractions

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Vivid Abstractions

What makes ideas come alive?

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New studio post: Scintillation Points.

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Scintillation Points

Sparkling conversations are like Schelling points for exploration

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New subscriber studio post, Hello Again, World.

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Hello Again, World

The revealed priorities of post-Covid realities

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New subscriber studio post, The Anthropic Cheat Code

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The Anthropic Cheat Code

Graph minds are possible because we can cheat complexity along one vector

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Newsletter delayed this week

New post, Ark Head

This week is probably the closest we’ve ever gotten in my lifetime to the brink of nuclear-powered World War 3, yet people seem strangely indifferent to the developments. I share in this unde…

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New studio post: The One Trading System

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The One Trading System

One does not simply remake global trade

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New post: Tangle Logic

The word tangle is generally used pejoratively in the English language, as in Walter Scott’s line, Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. Or at least disapprovingl…

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New free studio post, Mutualism

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Graph minds destabilize naive notions of individuals

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New post, ε/δ Thinking

We live in a world shaped by, and highly conducive to, discrete or 0/1 thinking. But not so long ago, we lived in a world shaped by, and highly conducive to, a kind of thinking you could call conti…

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New studio post, Globalism 2.0, Service Pack 3

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Globalism 2.0 Service Pack 3

An aging epoch of globalism seems to be suffering life-extension

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September 2022 Blog Update

September 2022 Blog Update

I haven’t been in a creative blogging mood for a month, thanks to oven-like conditions in Los Angeles these past few weeks, and of course the general Augustiness of August, the Armpit of the …

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New studio post: The Long 2022

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We're in a historical period-boundary year

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New studio subscriber post, The End of Alpha

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The End of Alpha

There is no alpha left in history anymore

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New post: Beyond Hyperanthropomorphism

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Beyond Hyperanthropomorphism

Or, why fears of AI are not even wrong, and how to make them real

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This week’s studio newsletter delayed. Will be sent out tomorrow.

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New subscriber post, Eventfulness

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What does it mean for time to be eventful?

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New post, Narrative Slipstream Effects

Narrative Slipstream Effects

Drafting is a behavior in bird-flock-like systems where one agent rides the slipstream of another in a way that delivers a collectivizable benefit, usually net energy savings. The instantaneous sav…

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