Money is a lot of things. Predominantly a unit of account, a store of value, and a medium of exchange. We're quite used to these functions being split up and handled by different tools. Dollars are a medium

“Post-scarcity”, “Post-economic”, and “Post-capitalist” are meant to convey a fundamental shift in the principles of human action, wrought by technological advancement. In reality, they are just cute

Turns out you don't need debt and a paper degree to build a great career.

Success in life comes from defying statistical predictions. Someone shared a video with me recently called, “You’re not special enough to NOT go to college.” It was about some statistics of average employment

In James C. Scott's new book Against the Grain, he deconstructs the erroneous narrative of early state formation, and presents some fascinating new evidence for a theory that ties states with staple grains.

Launching a company is more like having a baby than anything else I can compare it to. When I had the idea, it was like being pregnant. A weird mix of inevitability and scary hard work. You know this thing

William Nava has a powerful way to understand what states are, and what a stateless world would look like (and how to get there). We discuss his paper on this and more. Paper. "Would You Press the

I've always thought it odd that half-lives are calculated extrapolating average decay per second. Even if you observed a steady rate for 100 years, it seems a big assumption that it would remain constant

I'm a music amateur, but I love playing, singing, and writing. I keep it mostly to myself and don't do much besides record some stuff with my iPhone. I decided to go to the studio of artist Tim LeVan Miller

What better motivation is there to succeed, use time wisely, and not feel defeated? It's no secret that being an entrepreneur is stressful and time consuming. It requires not just physical but immense

A Burglar's Guide to the City - About halfway through and I'm stalled. Can't decide if I'm going to finish or not. Love it, have gotten a lot of ideas and entertainment from it, but not feeling compelled

Interesting read for a non-math expert like myself. Very intuitive, with fascinating implications.

Somehow, he's already like an old reactionary conservative shaking his stick at kids on the internet. I find meme's a brilliant new form of language and symbolism packed with subtlety, but he disagrees.

I hope that Steemit continues to evolve to a forum for serious exchange of ideas around homeschooling and education. I’ve been seeing some great articles and enjoy the community that is sprouting. A few

Premise: it takes people longer to develop into autonomous adults capable of independently navigating the world than it used to. If we accept that as true (I'm not entirely convinced, because what it means

The Hobbesian "state of nature", as a war of all against all, and the social contract theory, which romanticizes the origins of state monopolies in a way utterly incongruent with logic and history.

It took me a long time to get the most out of Twitter and Reddit. I still don't get anything valuable from Snapchat. I'm a little daft. What are the top three things to help me make the most of Steemit?

(From my blog. Trying to get a feel for Steemit, hope repost is OK). Image courtesy my iPhone. Weird mustache courtesy Nintendo. I'm not kidding. I just watched my kid grasp basic marketing truths that

8 minute talk presented at Voice & Exit in Austin, TX 2016.

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