* “The rise, fall and resurrection of Flickr.” About other topics too.
* How focus became more valuable than intelligence. Ties well into Cal Newport’s books on this subject.
* “The telling conservative backlash to a Virginia zoning reform proposal, explained.” Reforming land-use controls is the single best way to improve the average person’s life with minimal cost. If someone is talking about “income inequality” and similar topics without discussing how much land-use controls are costing the average person, they are not serious.
* What libertarianism has become and will become – State Capacity Libertarianism. Surprising on many points.
* “America Is Now the Divided Republic the Framers Feared.”
* AI and adaptive learning in education. This could and should be a big deal.
* “Denser Housing Is Gaining Traction on America’s East Coast: Maryland joins Virginia with a new proposal to tackle the affordable housing crisis. And it’s sweeping in its ambition.” Lowering the cost of housing is the easiest and most readily solvable problem in the United States today, because the problems are almost entirely legal and regulatory, rather than technological.
* Dan Wang on science, technology, China, and many other matters of interest.
* What Jordan Peterson Did for Rob Henderson.
* Has J.K. Rowling figured out a way to break our cancel culture? One hopes so. A little bit of “no” and ignoring the fools goes a long way.
* Letting nurse practitioners be independent increases access to health care? See also my most-read essay, “Why you should become a nurse or physicians assistant instead of a doctor: the underrated perils of medical school.”
* “Dominic Cummings’s plan to reshape the state.” Cummings communicates via blog, in complete sentences and complex thoughts. I don’t know of any other politician or high-level government official in any country who does the same.
* “ Concentrate! The challenge of chess – learning how to hold complexity in mind and still make good decisions – is also the challenge of life.”
* Ricky Gervais teaches Hollywood what speaking truth to power really means.
* “The inside story of how scientists produced an Ebola vaccine.” An impressive story with an undercurrent of the question, “Why can’t more vaccines be produced in a process closer to the Ebola vaccine process?”
* “Dating apps need women. Advertisers need diversity. AI companies offer a solution: Fake people.”
* Overly long and complain-y essay about turning books and magazine articles into movies. Or, more often, they get optioned and then disappear. Still useful for people curious about journalism, fiction, and TV shows.
* America’s National Climate Strategy Starts with NEPA. Unglamorous but important.
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