In the spring of 1997, police found 39 dead bodies in a San Diego home. The house was the scene of a mass ritual suicide of the religious group referred to as Heaven’s Gate. From investigation, each of these individuals gave their lives under the belief that their souls would…

We’re all drowning in a sea of information. The average processing speed of a human brain is 60 bits per second, but collectively we generate 1.7 megabytes of data in the same amount of time. That’s about 30,000 times more data than a single person can ever be aware of…

Scroll to the bottom for a tldr. What do self-guided missiles have to say about how we can live our best lives? If someone asked you what life was like, there’s a million answers you could give. It’s skinny-dipping with the love of your life, it’s crashing a golf cart…

Books are like software. One of the most interesting classes of books are those which update your OS for how you interpret the world. Taking the red pill in the Matrix style paradigm shifts. …

Inputs and Outputs How is is that some people regularly achieve things and behave in ways that seem impossible to everyone else? The most successful people in the world, the ones who drive major advances in technology, culture, and the global conversation often have a mystical air about them. Sometimes they seem like…

Why Writing in this Reality Sucks Because of our limited computational power, contemporary members of our species will never be able to perfectly describe anything they come into contact with, even if they devote our lifetime to attempting it. We are all finite participants in this infinitely complex dance, riding a massive tide of permutations before…

Everybody makes mistakes, here’s one of mine I used to eat, sleep, and breathe Call of Duty. I would wake up in the middle of the night to sneak downstairs, fire up the Xbox, and blast away at randos from other time-zones. …

Interconnectivity My favorite conversations, like my favorite movies, are unexpected. They start somewhere familiar, and then flip everything on its head. To leave for 15 minutes and come back is to find yourself in an alien landscape, with no clue as to how you got there. When the ride ends, your…

From my early to late tweens my favorite activity was playing with Legos. Over many years, I amassed quite a collection of the trademarked plastic with my allowance. It was my compensation for clearing weeds in the backyard, usually with a large metal hoe. For me, this was quite possibly…