Author: Andrew
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What’s Rational vs. What’s Real
I bought a decent amount (for us) of crypto in late 2021 (“bad” time) and held it through the whole bear market and next bull market, until last Tuesday when I decided to sell it hours before President Trump’s threat to kill 90 million people in Iran. 4 years isn’t that much time spent in…
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Philosophers at AI labs
Maybe about a year ago, I remember telling Michael that I thought it would make sense for the big AI companies to hire philosophers. That philosophers might be one of the last “jobs” left. A thousand other thoughts or predictions, if you can call this remark one, since then have not come to pass.
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It is Sunday
This is possible, it would just take a higher standard for what spending your money and your time means. And by “you” and “your”, I mean me and mine.
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My pendulum swings
After about two months now of using AI very heavily, exploring new coding and agent tools, I am again swinging back towards a very Wendell Berry-esque feeling towards all of it. At the same time as my usage has been going up, this very interesting nostalgia for the 90s and early 2000s has come into…
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Why ‘Cost Disease’ Is the Secret Force Behind America’s Toxic Solitude
Interesting post on a fix to the “anti-social century” maybe being possible through social subsidies. Through the lens of Baumol’s cost disease. We’ve gotten more isolated because technological progress in social areas drives us to spend more time alone: Netflix is cheaper than a movie theatre, etc. etc. Would be interesting to see a small…
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Reading Notes: Simulacra and Simulation (Baudrillard)
Reading notes collected from PDF Reader. The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. – Ecclesiastes Simulacra and Simulation, p. 1 ANDREW (April 8, 2026 — 2:53 PM ET) what is Baudrillard saying here? “But it is no longer…
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“A Psalm of Life”
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not…
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Something like: “Sober up, something is happening.”
There is tension in everything. This is the grounding the theory I have currently. If there is a way the world works, I would say it has something to do with tension. Tension in the sense that most of our experiences, consumables, and relationships are connected to each other thing and they’re in constant push…
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Rites of Spring
“This is a book about death and destruction. .. a book about ‘becoming.’” As I understand the book: Art is avant-garde. It breaks old things. Makes you wince. Fundamentally believes change is beautiful. It provokes you because it’s provoking the artist making it. Germany, in WWI, waged it to be do all of these things.…
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Where are the anti-elites when you need them?
Where’s everyone that sang this anthem two years ago when Joe Biden was the elite oppressor they cried out against? Has not Oliver’s fortune telling come true? But now it’s under the oppressor you chose? Where is the independence? The “don’t tread on me” no-matter-what-ness? Wake up! You were right about some things. But being…