A historical collection of our writing.
So far on Continuations I have had two big series: Tech Tuesdays and Uncertainty Wednesdays (since I have migrated to Paragraph these have become somewhat buried but I will fix that). Both series ran over several years and I greatly enjoyed writing them. More recently I have been in a writing rut. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last week the CEO of United Healthcare was assassinated in midtown Manhattan. A surprising number of reactions amounted to some variant of “he had it coming.” Why were people defending what appears to be a vigilante killing? Because the rule of law in the US has been undermined by a pervasive sense […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
A little over eight years ago I wrote that I was thinking about leaving Tumblr . More interestingly though, the headline of that post went on to say that I was “Looking for a Decentralized Blog Network”! I even explained what I meant by that: In functionality my ideal system would be quite similar […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Based on recent meetings it would appear that the national security establishment may share Leopold Aschenbrenner ’s view that the US needs to get to ASI first to help protect the world from Chinese hegemony. I believe firmly in protecting individual freedom and democracy. Building a secretive […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
First Pavel Durov, the co-founder and CEO of Telegram, was arrested in France, in part due to a failure to comply with moderation requests by the French government. Now we have Brazil banning X/Twitter from the country entirely, also claiming a failure to moderate. How much moderation should there […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I let meetings take over my life. For reasons that I might get into some other time I said yes to way too many meetings. My schedule became ever more packed, often running back-to-back for entire days. It became harder and harder to find time to read, think, and write. I also had virtually no […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
