My blog

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]

What I’m playing My dad and I are 4 turns into Dien Bien Phu: The Final Gamble. Loving this so far, it captures the tension of the siege and the difficult path for both sides to victory. I’m playing as the Viet Minh, the division-level morale and trench zones are... [Read More]