

Data Science, Left-wing Politics, Media
“I need to make sure I still have a private self,” he told me, “because the private self is where my writing comes from. The more I’m pulled out of that, the more I simply become another loudspeaker for what already exists. As a writer, I’m trying to pay attention to the stuff the people aren’t paying attention to.”
…ossible answer to the environmentalist’s paradox: the worst is yet to come. In this hypothesis, the material benefits that humanity has enjoyed over the last few decades have been purchased on overextended carbon credit, and just as previous credit bubbles have inevitably led to painful economic contractions, so it wi…
…This kind of technical bureaucracy cuts through engineering morale like a hot knife through butter. Teams shouldn’t claim projects, they should claim problems. And they should accept as much help from any direction when solving those problems.