Blog – Survey & Range

03 Oct, 2026 261003: Reply Aversion & Guilt Spirals
02 Oct, 2026 261002: Goffmanian Questions for LLMs
01 Oct, 2026 261001: Manifestation, Not A Manifesto
30 Sep, 2026 260930: Left-Humanism v. Pragmatist Utility
27 Sep, 2026 260927: Principles for a New Utopianism
26 Sep, 2026 260926: Progressive Pelagianism
19 Sep, 2026 260919: Garfield On Digital Imagination
17 Sep, 2026 260917: Revolt Against Reason
15 Sep, 2026 260915: Torino Decel Rhetoric
13 Sep, 2026 260914: Generation-Verification Asymmetry
12 Sep, 2026 290913: LLMs As Search Aggregators
11 Sep, 2026 260912: Innies and Outies
11 Sep, 2026 270911: Notes on "A World Without Work"
10 Sep, 2026 260910: Metaphors We Science By
05 Sep, 2026 260905: Cosmopolis (Book Review)
05 Sep, 2026 260904: Tool Metaphors
04 Sep, 2026 260903: Pragmatist Paradigms
03 Sep, 2026 260903: Markets and Megacorps
31 Aug, 2026 260831: Sausage & Confectionary
30 Aug, 2026 260830: Whitman's America
29 Aug, 2026 260829: Splitting "Agent"
22 Aug, 2026 260822: Tower & Bridge
21 Aug, 2026 260821: Search, Matching, Incorporation
20 Aug, 2026 260820: Inner & Outer Powers
19 Aug, 2026 260819: Cosmopoetics
19 Aug, 2026 260818: More Thoughts on Taste
17 Aug, 2026 260817: Claude on Avoidant Attachment
05 Aug, 2026 260805: Desegregate Generations & Delay Gratification
01 Aug, 2026 260801: Beiser's Flat
31 Jul, 2026 260731: Asterisms
30 Jul, 2026 260730: Humus
29 Jul, 2026 260729: An American Odyssey
28 Jul, 2026 260728: A Neo-Teilhardian Reader
27 Jul, 2026 260727: A Living Bible
26 Jul, 2026 260726: Misha on Empowerment
25 Jul, 2026 260725: Notes on Truth & Beauty
24 Jul, 2026 260724: Notes on Magical CEO'ing
23 Jul, 2026 260723: Notes on Taste
22 Jul, 2026 260722: Reasons, Intuition, & Taste
22 Jul, 2026 260722: New Psychotools?
21 Jul, 2026 260721: Spann'd by network
20 Jul, 2026 260720: Whigs & Tories
19 Jul, 2026 260719: Meliorism & Empowerment
18 Jul, 2026 260718: Mind & World, Co-constructing
17 Jul, 2026 260717: Animal Eyes & Animal Opinions
16 Jul, 2026 260616: The Archipelago
16 Jul, 2026 260715: Hills of the Homogenocene
15 Jul, 2026 260714: Mountaineer in Fog
14 Jul, 2026 260713: Barbarians with Lasers
12 Jul, 2026 260712: Autobiography
05 Jul, 2026 260704: American Shitshow

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