Archive - And I for truth

We don't know how to live in an atomized age

We're all fumbling through this new stage of history together, so let's be patient with each other

Jan 9, 2023 •

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Makers and Learners

Two types of cognitive drives and the people who are influenced by them

Jan 7, 2023 •

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March 2022

On protections against bad behavior

How I think about reducing my risk of being hit as a pedestrian and being raped, and how that's simultaneously similar to and different from addressing…

Mar 3, 2022 •

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January 2022

Young adult literature and revolutionary LARPers

How a budding genre of fiction influenced our culture

Jan 3, 2022 •

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November 2021

The STEM vs anti-STEM war

Why it's happening and some ideas for resolving it

Nov 22, 2021 •

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Chesterton's fence and modern life

How do we navigate new developments as our environments grow farther from those of our ancestors?

Nov 19, 2021 •

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Political values as an optimization problem

How we can use a mathematical framework to understand why people have different policy preferences

Nov 13, 2021 •

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Operator overloading and the culture wars

How a concept from computer science can illuminate misleading claims

Nov 10, 2021 •

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Welcome to "And I for truth!"

This is And I for truth, a newsletter about uncovering the strange time in which we currently find ourselves. The title was inspired by the Emily…

Nov 10, 2021 •

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