Jake Hamby

Quitting a Twitter Habit

I finally figured out the exact qualities that I dislike about Twitter, and I want to describe how the decision to make my collection of 351,000 tweets private, uninstall the mobile app, and stop using the service on a daily basis, felt so worthwhile and consequential after I did.

Silicon Valley Sadness

This is the first of two essays exploring the reasons why I fell into a deep depression while living and working in Silicon Valley. The Bay Area distills some of the worst excesses of American capitalism. This essay focuses on the deep sadness and loneliness that built up inside me over…

There isn’t very much evidence that oil is not a fossil fuel. Wikipedia has a very thorough entry for “abiogenic petroleum origin”, and I didn’t find the evidence for that theory convincing.

Besides, the issue isn’t that we’re running out of fossil fuels. It’s that we can’t afford to burn up the supply we have at the rate…