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Marginal Revolution: My Conversation with David Brooks, 2025-Aug-21 from Tyler Cowen David Brooks:  I really do believe that David Hume’s famous sentence that reason is and ought to follow the passions — I believe that’s true, that our passions are wiser than our reasonable mind, and that our emotions, when well trained, are much more supple and much…

Intelligencer: Reddit is one of the last thriving islands of the old web. Can it survive AI? 2026-July-22 by John Hermann Reddit has plenty of bullshit too. But a lot of questions brought to Reddit, Huffman says, are questions without clear answers — the sorts of questions where, even if you’re not asking them yourself,…

Useful Fictions: Everyone's the hero of their own story, 2025-June-4 by Cate Hall But if you do want to persuade, you have to offer people an alternative narrative. A new heroic story they can inhabit. With some emotional intelligence, you can make someone feel as if you’re not a villain mocking them, but rather, a…

Wild Bare Thoughts: Mental Models for People Who Actually Want to Think, 2025-April-15 by Stepfanie Tyler The first rule of clear thinking is to stop treating your ideas like sacred objects. Because they’re not. They’re tools. And the faster you learn to break them, the better they get. This is the foundation of Karl Popper’s…

Some of us knew this day would come. It's hard to explain to the technologists, but artists don't just reconfigure what's come before. They take an imaginative leap into things which have NEVER been seen before. It's not that AI can't do that… It's that AI probably can't inspire more and better art in the…

An excellent analysis, and interesting suggestions from a liberal who can stand to sit through the 'Bro' podcasts.  New York Times: The Achingly Simple Lesson That Democrats Seem Determined Not to Learn, 2025-Jun-11 by Michael Hirschorn But if the bro-casters lack a coherent policy agenda, what they do have is a well of knowledge, honed…

I've been guilty of dividing in my mind the promotional and conversational. Promotional posts are poorer if they don't promote a little conversation.  One Man & His Blog: When did you last reply to someone on a social network?, 2025-Jun-9 by Adam Tinworth When did you last use it as a place to interact and…