My blog

What I’m reading I finished When the Clock Broke. Good read overall and educational for me, someone who did not live through the late 80s and 90s as a politically conscious adult. Some choice quotes that are illustrative of the decades-long path that the conservative movement has been on: “They... [Read More]

What I’m reading I’m halfway through When the Clock Broke: ## Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s. Learning a lot of history from just before my time, and finding plenty of echoes that have reverberated back to today. Will have more to say once... [Read More]

What I’m listening to I listened to Dwarkesh interview Tyler Cowen on AI progress and other things. First half of the conversation was more interesting, quote that stuck with me (paraphrased): “Intelligence is not the bottleneck to clean water and electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa!”. Folks in white-collar knowledge professions are... [Read More]

What I’m reading The Online Sports Gambling Experiment has Failed. From the start my intuition with this stuff has been “We can’t compete, this shouldn’t be legal”. Some disturbing numbers from recent studies: “First, credit scores, a summary metric of overall creditworthiness, decrease by modest but statistically significant amounts (~1%).... [Read More]

Honorable mention: Starcraft 2 I have a long history with RTS games (I played Warcraft 2 before I could read!) and I picked up Starcraft 2 again this summer while on leave. It’s still incredible, and I don’t know how any RTS game will top it. Shoutout to PiG bronze... [Read More]