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A nation is a lot like a family. If there's someone in the family that starts behaving badly, you can't just cut them out of your family, ignore them, and pretend they're not there. You have to deal w…

It seems like people think that whatever's wrong with the world, or with politics, or government, is the others. It's Trump that's the problem, or the nazis, or the Republicans, or the globalists, or …

I love these glimpses where you realize that someone wildly successful and famous like Matt Daemon is just like the rest of us. He had to go through tons of rejections and learn things for himself bef…

We have to be willing to say “show me evidence of this, and I will change my mind”.

We have to be willing to, as a society, get researchers and scientists to set up experiments that inform these deci…

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…