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• [article] Server 101: A Digital Foundation — 27 Feb 2021
  A simple set up that allows us to access our files and stream media from our PC, our phone, and wherever else we might want them. No one owns them but us. If anything goes wrong, it can be replaced easily. And most importantly, we’ll have control over our digital self in a way that it deserves.
• [article] Solving the Paradox of Tolerance — 24 Feb 2021
  Every now and then a proponant of ‘tolerance’ will cite political philosopher Karl Popper’s ‘paradox of tolerance’ to justify their suppression of the tolerant. Shame Karl Popper didn’t see it as much of a paradox, then.
• [marginalium] Luck as Openness to Opportunity — 18 Feb 2021
• [marginalium] The Informational Value of Negative Emotions — 18 Feb 2021
• [marginalium] A pretty quote — 13 Feb 2021
• [marginalium] On the convenient origin myth of the egalitarian hunter-gathering past of humans — 13 Feb 2021
• [article] Existential Therapy — 13 Feb 2021
  Existential therapy seems like an ideal way to go about psychological healing, given the philosophy it grew out of. Unfortunately, like existentialism it suffers from ‘great man’ syndrome—a huge number of idiosyncratic practices that make it difficult to know how good it really is.
• [article] All food is toxic — 6 Feb 2021
  All food is toxic. All of it. This is a far more appropriate starting point for any discussion of nutrition than any other. It might sound a little controversial, but it won’t take me long to convince you.
• [article] Eating well — 6 Feb 2021
  Nutrition is a field of science plagued by very similar problems to brain science. You’re trying to make sense of a system that’s enormously complicated. So complicated in fact that it’s almost impossible to figure anything out at any level of detail, let alone how to perfect nutrition for every single person. But, just like brain science, there are a few very useful rules of thumb.
• [marginalium] Successful prophets are successful when the people transform flattery into ritual — 5 Feb 2021
• [marginalium] The microbial content of a sourdough starter depends less on location than the way it is made and maintained — 5 Feb 2021
• [marginalium] Natural selection happens way faster than you think — 5 Feb 2021
• [article] Autopoiesis: the origin of complex thought — 4 Feb 2021
  The complexity of our world determines the complexity of our actions. Simple enough to say, and perhaps to understand, but the implications are quite incredible and it all hinges on one concept: autopoiesis.
• [article] A narrative of 'grit' — 16 Jan 2021
  Angela Duckworth’s concept of the personality trait ‘grit’ is an interesting one, but it’s actually rather less helpful than the narrative about success she weaves in her book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
• [article] Genetics is nurture — 11 Jan 2021
  How much of who we are and what we do is the result of our genetic predispositions, and how much because of our environment? This tension is made complicated by the fact that the dichotomy doesn’t really exist. Rather, our nature is a form of nurture.