• Schlep Blindness Is a Moat

    Founders that are willing to take on problem areas that are unappealing because it seems like a lot of work is a moat.

  • Proof of Worth

    When joining a new team, a common piece of advice is to “gain credibility” by doing undesirable tasks others don’t want to do.

  • Good Explanations Trilema

    You can spot bad explanations similar to the way you can spot bad arguments using the Münchhausen trilemma.

  • Problems Are Soluble

    All problems are soluble with the right knowledge. That doesn’t mean we know the solution already, but that the pursuit of good explanations will lead to progress towards one.

  • Dogs Bark but the Train Keeps Going

    There’s a Finnish saying that the “dogs are barking but the train keeps going” meaning that people will always be talking about you but it doesn’t matter.

  • Techno-Optimism Is Rational

    Techno-optimists believe technology can solve the world’s most pressing problems. With the right knowledge, we can find solutions to climate change like abundant clean energy.

  • Measuring Infinity

    In a thought experiment from The Beginning of Infinity, the author introduces a universe traveling device.

  • Jump to Universality

    The jump to universality has two phases. Before universality, one needs to create specialized objects.

  • Applications for New Businesses Are Up 20 Percent

    In 2021, 5.4 million applications for new businesses were filed. This rise in entrepreneurial activity coincides with the Great Resignation and the COVID-19 global pandemic where people are re-evaluating their relationship with work.

  • Abstractions Are Real

    The real world and it’s behaviors are extraordinarily complex. To theorize and create good explanations necessarily requires some encapsulation of ideas through abstractions.