We live in a world shaped by, and highly conducive to, discrete or 0/1 thinking. But not so long ago, we lived in a world shaped by, and highly conducive to, a…
All Those Metrics Bleed Your Obsessions - Aaron Ross Powell
The internet once encouraged us to build entire identities around our weirdest, deepest fascinations. Then metrics and distribution flattened those obsessions into fungible content.
Predictable Identities: 23 - The Self
In reality there are only atoms and the void, but in our mind exists the self. This thing here is part of me , this thing there isn’t. The concept of self…
Weirding Diary: 4
The Things Fall Apart series on Epsilon Theory is an excellent exploration of the Great Weirding, particularly the "As Above, So Below" principle: “As Above,…
The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth
People feel they understand complex phenomena with far greater precision, coherence, and depth than they really do; they are subject to an illusion—an illusion of explanatory depth. The illusion is f...
Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is | Quanta Magazine
The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.
kasra on Twitter / X
believing in a singularity requires what @kevin2kelly calls "thinkism" – the belief that thinking really hard is the only thing you need to solve all the problems in the world pic.twitter.com/0xzll5PUtR— kasra (@kasratweets) June 20, 2026
Newfound Mathematical 'Einstein' Shape Creates a Never-Repeating Pattern
A new shape called an einstein has taken the math world by storm. The craggy, hat-shaped tile can cover an infinite plane with patterns that never repeat.
The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…
The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…
Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
"In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state."
We Need Homes in the Delta Quadrant
Place is security, space is freedom. — Yi-Fu Tuan
Cognitive Autonomous Zones: against “framework fundamentalism” — Belshaw Brain Archive
In my previous post on the “cash value” of truth, I explored how Pragmatist philosophy offers a way to test beliefs through their practical consequences. Is something, as William James would put it, “