Essays

Select excerpts from Lawrence Yeo’s How To Calm An Anxious Brain

Select excerpts I can refer back to from How to Calm the Anxious Brain by Lawrence Yeo As I researched…

2 years ago

A Few Blurbs From Slatestarcodex’s Review of Scout Mindset

Link to the full review Like - a big part of why so many people - the kind of people…

2 years ago

Summary of a Summary: Accelerated Expertise

Ced Chin wrote a synopsis of Accelerated Expertise. He opens: This is a summary of a remarkable 🌳 tree book, which…

3 years ago

Notes From Moloch

Select excerpts from Slatestarcodex's: Meditations on Moloch (Link) The premise: The implicit question is – if everyone hates the current…

4 years ago

Keepsakes From Slatestar’s Fake Graduation Speech

Link to original post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation-speech/ These excerpts capture the gist of the "speech" that I want to retain. What if…

5 years ago

Unpacking The Beauty Of A deBoer Book Review

Freddie deBoer's review of Ross Douthat's The Deep Places, a memoir of Douthat's illness, is impressively balanced and justified (I…

5 years ago

Bubbles: Knowing You’re In One Is Not Even Half The Battle

Select excerpts from Aaron Brown and Richard Dewey's paper: Toil and Trouble, Don't Get Burned Shorting Bubbles (SSRN) It was…

5 years ago

Graham Duncan’s “What’s Going On Here, With This Human?”

Excerpts from Graham Duncan's "What's Going On Here, With This Human?" (Link) Interviewing is really a narrow application of a…

5 years ago

The Why And How Of Taking “Discoverable Notes”

I have been an active note-taker for years and a fan of how meta Tiago Forte gets about the process…

6 years ago

Li Lu on China-US Relations

Excerpts from part 2 of Li Lu's series Discussion of Modernization: A Look at the Future of Sino-US Relations Link…

6 years ago