Democracy for Me, Poverty and Exploitation for Thee
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We’re not even out of Chapter 1 in this month’s book and another thought has been sticking with me. Democracies love to preach the virtues of freedom – but they’ve never hesitated to install “friendly” leaders abroad when there’s profit to be made. This isn’t the first time I’ve come across the idea either. In
People’s Rights, Play, Local Music
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Do you enjoy this, become a member or buy a book to help keep the content coming. Today we have a hard conversation about the rights of people, how play was lost, and local music. Trans Rights, Women’s Rights, Gay Rights…Oh my This was a very interesting episode of Uncomfortable Conversations looking at trans rights
Democratic Hubris
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The first point that stuck out to me in Autocracy Inc is that many democratic countries believed if they engaged with autocrats economically they’d export their clearly superior ideas and democracy would spread throughout the world. This is a very common thought because we all want to believe that our ideas are the right ones,
Tolerance, Match Fit, and a Music Video
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Should you tolerate everyone? What about people who are intolerant and actively work to restrict the rights of others? Should you specialize early or wait? Which brings greater long-term success? Oh, and a fun music video from one of my current favourite bands to lighten up the mood. The Paradox of Tolerance In response to
What We Lost When We Made Sex Casual
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Next moth’s book is Autocracy Inc. Sign up to book club to get all the discussion on it free. This month’s book was The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry. Perry sets out to answer the question, was the sexual revolution good for women? Was it all good, all bad, what parts were
The Smart Home, Dumb Trade-offs, and Tunnelling Tax
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This week the AWS issue was the last straw and had me take out my smart lights, Ryder Caroll has good advice on how to take notes that mean something in the future, and what are the costs of tunnelling tax? Like this support the content by purchasing my book or becoming a member. Goodbye
Take Sex Seriously
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The main premise of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution is that while freedom was gained for women in the sexual revolution, many things were lost that were good. Perry digs into this heavily in the first chapter which looks at how liberal feminism tries to say that sex is no more meaningful than any
Writing, Kindness, Substack is lame
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Like this and want to keep it coming, become a member. How do we write, how do we act, how do we feel about platforms trying to own the relationship between writers and readers? Writing in Fragments Sacha shares their writing process and like many does a bit of lamenting about the lack of uninterrupted
Dual Boot Diaries
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Found this series about Windows users looking at Linux. I’m just starting it but if you’re interested in Linux and you’re coming from Windows it can be a good resource. I did already watch this interview with the Framework founder and found it interesting that their laptops are just barely over 50% Linux according to
On YouTube Sponorships
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While I’ve slowed down so much I may have well just stopped doing YouTube, I too rarely did sponorships. The big thing is that the request for the sponorship and what I had to provide would have increased my work by 2-3x and for that extra effort, hours sometimes, I would get 100-200 bucks due
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