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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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The Old Ways are More Likely to continue to Work
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The best of the old ways are valuable not because they’re old, but because they are tried and tested. They work. Sometimes they are equal or superior to the new ways, sometimes they’re less efficient. But efficiency isn’t always the goal, is it? – Storing your stuff in plaintext is part of a bigger picture
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My Freedom Was Built Before I Was Born
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While we’d like to think our world is one of freedom but it’s not. The world is only free for some while others live under rules made by people who want to strip their freedom. These rules are made by others, often rich white people, as a way to suppress the freedom of others and
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Productivity as a Fetish
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Looking around at the productivity gurus writing about their ideal morning routine, or showing off their amazing productivity system, it’s easy to think that we’ve got it wrong. Our system doesn’t let us live the life we see captured in moments and posted on Instagram. The task manager we use doesn’t let us flow effortlessly
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