Oct 18, 2017

References

Master of the Senate

Episode 3 - Legacy: the size of a science slice of the pie is shrinking

Rationalists coordinating people on a project article

Technical debt

Kula Sushi LA, Silicon Valley

Influence - Cialdini

Things to Hang on your Mental Mug Tree

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Microsoft research...

Sep 23, 2017

References

xkcd - ranking people

Paul Graham cities essay

Article - The urban archipelago

Iron law of institutions

Iron law of oligarchy

Article about the significance of "again" in "Make America Great Again"

Places

The Barbican

Seguin, Texas

Sep 5, 2017

References

Bret Stephens climate change article

Arguments as soldiers

California wine growers buying land in British Columbia

States and cities offering to step in and honor US climate deals

KSR - global warming as huge engineering project

Reinsurance companies

Bloomberg climate change NGO - covering US portion of...

Jun 23, 2017

References

Elasticity of demand

System I and II

Achieving flow

Failure mode of computer scientists in building tools: You Aren't Gonna Need It, Premature Optimization,

Dominion (again) / Isotropic

Overdamped/underdamped control.  For the short version, see this Quora answer.  For the math, see this.

Efficiency...

Jun 23, 2017

References

Goodreads

Anathem

Pythagorean

Foundation - Asimov

Doberman

Neal Stephenson Clang video

Gentlemen of the Road

The Yiddish Policeman's Union

Clown on Fire

History of vanilla

Lois McMaster Bujold

• Vorkosigan Saga
• A Civil Campaign

Ursula K Le Guin

• The Word for World is Forest
  Wizard of Earthsea