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Common Tech Jobs Described as Cabals of Mesoamerican Wizards
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The IQ Bell Curve Meme
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Remaining Ambitious
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The Figurative-to-Abstract Art Pipeline
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There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)
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We Rarely Lose Technology
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A Substack Sabbatical
Four years later, time to take a break! 4️⃣
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Notes From the Periphery on the Recent Election in the Empire
I don't really want to write about politics but I have to free my brain of it ☑️
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Living on the Periphery of the Empire
What do you do when you grow up at the edge of a superpower? 🇺🇸
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Not a rebranding 🎃
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Karl Popper’s Theory of Evolution
Natural selection as creative and purposeful problem-solving ☁️
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Atlas of Links #1
Blogging battles, burning buildings, beautiful brutalism, and more
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Histories of the Greater West
Imagining trees of culture to understand civilizations better 𓏞
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