The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

One of the useful big picture ideas I remember picking up from Moldbug is that one should strive to understand the present in the way that a...

Winston Churchill once observed that a good definition of a fanatic was someone who can’t change his mind, and won’t change the subject. O...

 I posted a version of this on twitter, but a) the writing format there is so ugly, and b) who knows how long that thread might last. So her...

As with many things in life, it's hard to notice the things that aren't there, but should be. I remember my own personal experience ...

(The inspiration for this post comes from here , and from a coffee conversation with The Grinch, who asked me the subject line bluntly durin...