From the start a great piece. “In 2015 Google’s parent company Alphabet retired the old motto, now substituting for it “Do the right thing.” The old motto was better. Negation has advantages that positive assertions lack. Our First Amendment, for… Read More »The Evilization of Google—And What to Do About It
Loved the book, didn’t know it was written in a hurry. It is all the better for it. “the Kingdom of Heaven is nothing other than an unrealized possibility: we are merely a realization away from Paradise.” https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/the-light-of-the-brothers-karamazov
Moja cesta od boľavého chrbta k zdravému pohybu z pohľadu môjho trénera plávania. https://www.swimmatt.sk/post/10mm-hernia-disku-0-oper%C3%A1ci%C3%AD-klient-a-tr%C3%A9ner-o-ceste-ku-zdraviu
Unfortunately seen this first hand. ‘The medical system’s entire ethos is built on the idea that it knows what it knows… If you’re in a body that’s at the edge of medical knowledge, your symptoms don’t map onto tidy test… Read More »Medicine is uncertain: embracing that makes doctors better
Religion did not work like you think it did. “over time, these customs won’t seem so strange anymore. Humans have a tendency to assume that whatever the customs – for instance, for diplomacy – are in our time, that this… Read More »Practical Polytheism, Part I: Knowledge
This. “There’s no meeting. No Slack ping. No “Hey, heads up, your gold stars just became red flags.”You just start getting weird feedback.You get passed over.You hear someone less experienced praised for doing the thing you were just told to… Read More »How Senior Engineers Lose Trust
Wear your helmet. Even on a bicycle. “If you can afford nothing else, protect the head. This is so important that we often see soldiers acquiring rigid metal head protection (meaning a helmet) before acquiring even textile body armor (it… Read More »Armor in Order, Part I
Empires are not what you probably think. “Empire, I should note, seems to be one of – if not the – dominant form of large-scale human social organization since at least the bronze age (which is to say: since as… Read More »Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires?
Logistic is hard. “you can see why logistics gets complicated fast. Even in explaining a rule of thumb, I have to resort to rules of thumb, or else we have to inventory all of the stuff an infantry brigade needs,… Read More »How Fast Do Armies Move?
Cities define transportation which define other cities. “The impact of these sorts of roads can actually be observed archaeologically, because they tend to come quite late historically and thus alter pre-existing settlement patterns, so we can see exactly how they… Read More »Collections: The Lonely City, Part II: Real Cities Have Curves