"Hey master bladesmith, you’ve made a dozen knives this year. Same as last year. Same as the last 20. If you love metal so much, why not help build a battleship? That would be a ridiculous line of questioning. So why is it persuasive in tech?" 🎯

"Hey master bladesmith, you’ve made a dozen knives this year. Same as last year. Same as the last 20. If you love metal so much, why not help build a battleship? That would be a ridiculous line of questioning. So why is it persuasive in tech?" 🎯

"Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers" is CS Lewis telling you get into a hobby if you want to make friends 😄

We can turn this fertility crisis around. It's rooted in a mimetic contagion, it can be reversed by a mimetic cure. Parenthood is the highest purpose most people will ever discover.

Convincing folks to try Linux is fun, but changing their minds about children is the best ❤️

"This was the original killer insight by the architects of the short-lived woke theocracy: If you can capture culture, you can capture capitalism. But it's one thing to capture culture, it's quite another to hold it."

"I hope we never do discover immortality. A hundred years, give or take a decade or two, is enough. The constraint is part of what gives the duration its meaning."

Public companies run by professional managers rarely have any principled positions. Their actions are entirely downstream from the way the wind blows. This is actually a feature not a bug! Fix the culture, they'll follow. These new ads featuring family and fast Fords are proof.

Building competence with computers by learning new skills and making new friends is a great way to treat your garden-variety petit depression. I bet it would beat talk therapy in a clinical study as easily as regular exercise does. Much cheaper and useful too 😄

My wife just compared all this tech-adjacent extreme longevity focus in men to anorexia in women. A physical manifestation of anxiety and lack of control. And now I can't get the thought out of my head. Spot on.