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I've long said that politics is theater, especially US politics, and it's the only rational way to look at it. It's all show. Of course, there are real-world consequences, but everything you see is a …

This selfie drone looks insane. I'm fascinated by selfie culture. If you don't have a selfie of it, it didn't happen? I much prefer to live my life and enjoy it in the moment. But that's just me.

Thi…

Let's have the government create public infrastructure for an open web for the benefit of all the world, such as this.

That's the title of a New York Times article, and it's hard to disagree with.

In the 1980, low and middle class saw the largest income growth. These days, they see almost no income growth, but the …

When you're developing a piece of software or starting a business or solving some business challenge, it's often times super helpful to go back to the start and rethink everything from a blank slate.

I'm currently obsessed with how to design a political system that actually works. I haven't experienced one in real life, but that shouldn't stop us from considering what one would look like.

A few m…

I don't actually believe that statement, but it is something I used to believe, and it's something I hear a lot.

I was at an event with Stevie Wonder in April, and they were talking a lot of trash ab…

One of the links included in James Damore's diversity memo was this article about stereotype accuracy.

I don't know enough about thees things to know whether they've done their homework properly or t…

CNN sums it up: They claim Damore "argued that women are not biologically fit for tech roles" (not linking to CNN because of their autoplay videos).

I read the memo. It says no such thing.

It does s…

Watched the PBS documentary on Mark Twain, and it was excellent. It's a two-part show, part of the American Lives series by Ken Burns.

Toward the end, I cried. The hardship that brilliant man suffere…