Posts tagged with "essays"
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Rules of power: being randomly unfair
Fair leaders are respected, but randomly unfair leaders command fear and hope. This political science theory governs everything from your boss to the stock market.
10/23/2025
CLOSE YOUR DAMN TABS
Why people with 50 chrome tabs opened are never to be trusted. The science of open loops, decision paralysis, and why 60-year-old virgins on yachts are still miserable.
The Blood Tax - When Unfunded Debts Demand a Human Price
When fiscal illusions stretch past their limits, we settle them with blood. Examining how unsound money and unfunded pensions manifest as premature death, abstention from birth, and war.
10/15/2025
Status as economic catalyst
How social status functions as a chemical catalyst in economics by reducing verification costs. Understanding when the pursuit of status creates value versus when it becomes wasteful.
Rituals seems unavoidable
Why we dedicate 30-40% of our resources to seemingly wasteful rituals. Examining the 'belief tax' as the price we pay for trust, leveraged action, and filtering mechanism for ideas.
No one cares about you (nor should you care about them)
Why 0.01% of creators get 99.9% of views, why chasing attention is a noob trap, and why blogs outlast tweets. Stop chasing audiences and build something good enough.
Why every country is broke AF
It's real estate. Examining the accounting gimmick of the century: how houses became the only capital good exempted from depreciation, creating budget holes that require infinite money printing.
Post Gen Z can't retire until this changes
Why working harder and paying more taxes won't make you rich. Examining wealth inequality, lack of opportunities, and future senior poverty through the lens of invisible social parasites.
We can't all get rich off compound interest
Exposing the illusion of financial freedom through passive income. The system only works if the working class continues to toil, and we can't all be on the receiving end of compound interest.
When not to negotiate
Understanding the difference between limited and unlimited objectives. Recognizing when negotiation is futile and when your opponent simply wants more, not resolution.
Illusion of productivity
Challenging the conventional wisdom that equates busyness with productivity. Examining how consumption masquerades as production in information, education, compliance, and opportunities.
Natural language is software
How English, Chinese, and Japanese evolved to solve the same abstraction problems that plague software developers today. Natural languages predict the challenges of our codebases.