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The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite

I often draw a distinction between the political elites of Washington DC and the industrial elites of Silicon Valley with a joke: in San Francisco reading books, and talking about what you have read, is a matter of high prestige. Not so in Washington DC. In Washington people never read books—they just write them. To…

2024-08-21T13:51:14-0700 The Scholar's Stage 4,000 words

Rated 2024-08-26T21:43:54-0700 - sethherr

How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche

More than 100 million people visit the retailer for their groceries — and gas and TVs and gold bars and pet coffins — but saving money may not be the only motive.

2024-08-20T13:46:25-0700 The New York Times Ben Ryder Howe ($) 4,000 words

Rated 2024-08-24T22:16:53-0700 - sethherr

Your Book Review: How the War Was Won

Finalist #8 in the Book Review Contest

2024-08-09T13:24:01-0700 astralcodexten.com Astral Codex Ten 7,000 words

Rated 2024-08-09T14:19:17-0700 - sethherr

My New Band Is: The Indoctrinated Rich

On the Brearley dad, what indoctrination means in the context of education, and private schools that are segregation academies

2021-04-17T15:11:30-0700 My New Band Is Elizabeth Spiers 6,000 words

Rated 2024-08-05T15:40:50-0700 - sethherr

Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

Rated 2024-08-05T15:27:48-0700 - sethherr

Venezuela’s Maduro clings to power. Opposition hopes this time it ends differently.

Venezuelan President Maduro has claimed – without evidence – that he won the presidential election. Despite high levels of repression, the opposition is leaning into their hope for change.

2024-08-05T13:26:53-0700 The Christian Science Monitor Mie Hoejris Dahl ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-08-05T15:20:22-0700 - sethherr

Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago

The Atlantic

Rated 2024-07-30T11:00:32-0700 - sethherr

Every company should be owned by its employees

Central States Manufacturing as a model for employee-ownership.

2024-07-24T03:13:57-0700 The Elysian Elle Griffin 2,000 words

Rated 2024-07-30T10:39:38-0700 - sethherr

Monetization & Monopolies: How The Internet You Loved Died

Or Why Tech Monopolies Are Actually Good For Society. A defence of “Big Tech” on the principles of progress. Hold on! Stow the pitchforks! Hear me out...

2024-07-25T07:31:11-0700 Radical Contributions Conrad Bastable 10,000 words

Rated 2024-07-30T10:36:42-0700 - sethherr

America’s New Political War Pits Young Men Against Young Women - WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

Rated 2024-07-29T12:58:32-0700 - sethherr

Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones)

The Republican and Democratic parties are not the same: power flows differently within them. The two big political news items of this week—the happenings of the Republican National Convention and the desperate attempts of many Democrats to replace their candidate before their own convention next month—reflect these asymmetries. Nevertheless, many discussions of American politics assume…

2024-07-20T12:56:55-0700 The Scholar's Stage 5,000 words

Rated 2024-07-27T21:59:57-0700 - sethherr

Advantages of incompetent management

yosefk.com

Rated 2024-07-16T17:09:06-0700 - sethherr

(20) TracingWoodgrains on X: "In conversations about intelligence, people often take the @charlesmurray approach of emphasizing that intelligence doesn't determine a person's worth. I find myself a bit dissatisfied when I chew on this. It's true, but I suspect it's a bit too easy. Specifically: while I https://t.co/jzo9YEsWRX" / X

x.com 1,000 words

Rated 2024-07-16T15:24:08-0700 - sethherr

Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media

Gideon Lewis-Kraus writes about the tension between Scott Alexander, of the rationalist blog Slate Star Codex, and the New York Times. #Journalism #New York Times #Silicon Valley #Social Media

2020-07-09T08:10:18-0700 The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 5,000 words

Rated 2024-07-16T14:10:04-0700 - sethherr

Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record

The feud between basilisk-obsessed Wikipedia admin David Gerard and everyone from heterodox news sources to the right wing to rationalists,

2024-07-10T07:31:47-0700 Tracing Woodgrains 15,000 words

Rated 2024-07-16T13:18:24-0700 - sethherr

I Ate Poison Oak To Try to Gain Immunity. Here’s What Happened. - WSJ

archive.ph

Rated 2024-07-09T09:56:04-0700 - sethherr

I Ate Poison Oak To Try to Gain Immunity. Here’s What Happened. - WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

Rated 2024-07-09T09:53:27-0700 - sethherr

Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon Gas

The more you learn about xenon gas the stranger it gets.

2023-07-13T08:55:45-0700 Tripsitter Tripsitter, Justin Cooke 🍄 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-27T10:31:40-0700 - sethherr

It’s Time for Progressives to Recommit to Academic Freedom

The same justifications we’ve used to restrict conservative speech are being used to silence us on Palestine. We need a different approach.

2024-06-25T06:47:05-0700 The Nation Tascha Shahriari-Parsa ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2024-06-27T10:31:08-0700 - sethherr

Social. Private. Open. Pick three. – Jake Zimmerman

jez.io

Rated 2024-06-24T20:02:28-0700 - sethherr

UUID Benchmark War

This month's PGSQL Phriday #015 topic is about UUIDs, hosted by Lætitia Avrot. Lætitia has called for a debate. No, no, no. I say let's have an all-out war. A benchmark war. I have decided to orchestrate a benchmark war between four different methods of storing a primary key: use a text field to store…

2024-02-03T15:54:01-0800 Ardent Performance Computing 3,000 words

Rated 2024-06-24T19:55:31-0700 - sethherr

An Unexpected Turn in the Evangelical Culture Wars

A proposal to ban Southern Baptist women from serving as pastors failed a two-thirds-majority vote, signalling that the far right has not yet consolidated its control of the Church. #Christianity #Religion

2024-06-12T13:52:49-0700 The New Yorker Eliza Griswold 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T18:02:02-0700 - sethherr

Not Your Childhood Library

Paige Williams writes that an ambitious experiment in Minneapolis is changing the way librarians work with their homeless patrons and challenging how we share public space. #Homelessness #Libraries #Minnesota

2024-05-23T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Paige Williams 4,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:50:26-0700 - sethherr

What Does an "Analyst" Do?

Capital Gains

Rated 2024-06-14T17:30:17-0700 - sethherr

How to be More Agentic

On a supposedly difficult thing

2024-01-10T12:43:50-0800 Useful Fictions Cate Hall 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:26:33-0700 - sethherr

Why Is Everyone on Steroids Now?

Across the internet and in gyms everywhere, body-modifying drug use has become ubiquitous, effective and... normal. Can this really be a good thing?

2024-06-05T05:00:00-0700 GQ Rosecrans Baldwin 5,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:23:39-0700 - sethherr

Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder Liquidity

Ask most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE A BIG MOVE!!!" And then you'll ask, "but why are you yelling?” The narrative of the founder's risk is a cornerstone of Silicon Valley's mythology. Founders are celebrated for leaving stable jobs...

2024-06-08T17:35:35-0700 Stefan Theard 1,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:22:26-0700 - sethherr

How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science

The most common test of statistical significance originated from the Guinness brewery. Here’s how it works

2024-05-25T05:00:00-0700 Scientific American Jack Murtagh ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-14T17:18:23-0700 - sethherr

The Missionary in the Kitchen

I longed for purpose, meaning, the sense of being found. Then, one summer, I sort of was, Clare Sestanovich writes. #College #Religion

2024-06-01T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Clare Sestanovich 2,000 words

Rated 2024-06-05T21:09:42-0700 - sethherr

Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them

The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit. #Climate Change #Colorado #Global Warming #Transportation

2024-05-31T02:00:29-0700 The New York Times Megan Kimble 3,000 words

Rated 2024-06-01T17:50:32-0700 - sethherr

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals

3M found that many of its products, including Scotchgard and Scotchban, leached toxic chemicals called PFAS. Sharon Lerner reports on why the company kept making them.

2024-05-20T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Sharon Lerner 7,000 words

Rated 2024-05-30T14:40:17-0700 - sethherr

The Trials and Tribulations of the Boymom

The New Yorker

Rated 2024-05-29T16:53:54-0700 - sethherr

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Anthony Lane writes about Blinkist, one of a number of phone apps that aim to boil down entire books into synopses lasting as little as ten minutes.

2024-05-20T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Anthony Lane 4,000 words

Rated 2024-05-29T15:49:12-0700 - sethherr

The Lunacy of Artemis

For the first time since the 1960's, it looks doubtful whether the US space agency is even capable of getting us to the Moon.

idlewords.com 8,000 words

Rated 2024-05-20T10:58:03-0700 - sethherr

DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb

Once a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed—and spurning the creative community that made it great. #Art #Artificial Intelligence #Internet #Law

2024-05-16T08:30:00-0700 Slate Nitish Pahwa 3,000 words

Rated 2024-05-20T10:57:24-0700 - sethherr

Third Time: a better way to work — LessWrong

HOW CAN you be more productive? Instead of half-working all day, it’s better to work in focused stints, with breaks in between to recover. …

2022-01-07T13:15:57-0800 lesswrong.com bfinn 7,000 words

Rated 2024-05-20T10:25:53-0700 - sethherr

Scrabble, Anonymous

“As was the case with alcohol, my first and last thoughts of the day are usually Scrabble related (RELATED anagrams: ALTERED, REDEALT, ALERTED, TREADLE).”

2024-05-15T13:03:37-0700 The Paris Review Brad Phillips 3,000 words

Rated 2024-05-20T10:24:34-0700 - sethherr

How to get 7th graders to smoke

OR: "fuzzy, wet, and unfalsifiable"

2024-05-14T07:01:50-0700 Experimental History Adam Mastroianni 4,000 words

Rated 2024-05-15T09:15:35-0700 - sethherr

Rails is Not Your Application

Background: The Beginnings of My Obsession with Application Architecture and Domain Modelling Last year I was involved in my most complex Ru...

blog.firsthand.ca 1,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T11:14:36-0700 - sethherr

Spontaneous Pneumothorax

Spontaneous pneumothorax refers to the abnormal collection of gas in the pleural space between the lungs and the chest wall. Spontaneous pneumothorax occurs without an obvious etiology such as trauma or iatrogenic causes. Spontaneous pneumothorax can be classified as either primary or secondary. Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) occurs when the patient does not have a history of the underlying pulmonary disease, whereas secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP) is associated with a...

2023-07-24T00:00:00-0700 PubMed Central (PMC) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:46:53-0700 - sethherr

All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train—Asterisk

The United States has the most expensive transportation infrastructure in the world. That’s because we refuse to learn from experts, other countries, and our own history.

asteriskmag.com 5,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:45:16-0700 - sethherr

Is Justin Timberlake the pop star anyone wants?

Justin Timberlake’s resurfaced scandals involving Janet Jackson and Britney Spears have soured his image. Can he pull off a comeback with Everything I Thought It Was? #Culture #Music

2024-03-14T04:30:00-0700 Vox Kyndall Cunningham 2,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:45:03-0700 - sethherr

A Social History of Jell-O Salad

Shaped by the rise of home economics, the industrialization of the food system, World War II, and changing expectations about women's labor, the Jell-O salad—the wobbling jewel of domestic achievement—can teach us about U.S. life in the 20th century as few foods can.

2015-08-19T02:00:00-0700 Serious Eats Sarah Grey 3,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:44:54-0700 - sethherr

The Berkeley Software Distribution

UNIX is always litigious

2024-02-04T18:32:00-0800 Abort Retry Fail Bradford Morgan White 7,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:44:41-0700 - sethherr

lori's blog - Why I Lost Faith in Kagi

d-shoot.net

Rated 2024-05-14T08:40:53-0700 - sethherr

The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment

Jia Tolentino on an experiment in which she tried to hide her pregnancy from her phone and on how we are increasingly trading our privacy for a sense of security. #Parenthood #Pregnancy #Surveillance

2024-05-04T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Jia Tolentino 2,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:38:39-0700 - sethherr

Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

Plus: animation news.

2024-05-05T20:58:35-0700 Animation Obsessive Animation Obsessive Staff 4,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:36:20-0700 - sethherr

Plea deal for driver accused of DUI crash that killed cyclist is unjust

The proposed one-year sentence for a driver accused of killing SF cyclist Ethan Boyes in a DUI crash is a shocking injustice, writes Gabriella Wong. #Vision zero

2024-03-15T11:36:48-0700 SFGATE Gabriella Wong 1,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:33:29-0700 - sethherr

Scientists Like Me Knew There Was Something Amiss With Andrew Huberman’s Wildly Popular Podcast

He recommends supplements. He’s iffy on the flu shot. And more. #Health Care #Science

2024-03-27T12:53:32-0700 Slate Andrea Love 3,000 words

Rated 2024-05-14T08:29:22-0700 - sethherr

The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound - Audio Academy Audio Legends

While modern improvements in technologies have the benefit of being far more powerful and lightweight, the Wall of Sound remains unparalleled.

2019-02-01T16:11:19-0800 Audio Academy 1,000 words

Rated 2024-05-07T20:41:55-0700 - sethherr