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- Dec 31, 2025: Best Books, Articles, Films and Theater I Read and Saw (2025 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2025: Best Articles I Wrote (2025 Edition)
- Jan 1, 2025: Best Books, Articles, Films, Theater and Games I Read, Watched and Played (2024 Edition)
- Jan 1, 2025: Best Articles I Wrote (2024 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2023: Best Articles I Read (2023 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2023: Best Books I Read (2023 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2023: Best Articles I Wrote (2023 Edition)
- Feb 21, 2023: Ecospirituality in the age of population growth
- Feb 20, 2023: Outline of “A Savage War of Peace” by Alistair Horne
- Feb 20, 2023: 10 Years after “Academic Revolution and Regional Innovation: The Case of Computer Science at Stanford 1957-1970”
- Dec 31, 2022: Best Articles I Read (2022 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2022: Best Articles I Wrote (2022 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2022: Best Books I Read (2022 Edition)
- Nov 21, 2022: Skepticism, optimism, truth and an updated writing review
- Jun 14, 2022: Marginal stupidity, decadence, and more writing
- Jun 9, 2022: Is “decadence” even a useful concept?
- Jun 7, 2022: The subplots of China
- May 11, 2022: How disposable is Miami?
- Jan 15, 2022: Can the delocalization and deglobalization of American news ever be undone?
- Jan 8, 2022: A 2021 Retrospective from Danny Crichton
- Jan 8, 2022: Best Articles I Read (2021 Edition)
- Jan 3, 2022: Best Articles I Wrote (2021 Edition)
- Jan 3, 2022: Best Books I Read (2021 Edition), plus several books that disappointed
- Nov 29, 2021: Some notes on crypto, capitalism, climate change and antitrust
- Dec 31, 2020: Best Articles I Read (2020 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2020: Best Books I Read (2020 Edition)
- Dec 31, 2020: Best Articles I Wrote (2020 Edition)
- Sep 22, 2020: Gangster Capitalism, more Palantir discussion, and reading recs
- Sep 12, 2020: "A New World Begins" and the meaning of the French Revolution
- Sep 8, 2020: Post-Labor Day writing updates and article recommendations
- Sep 6, 2020: “The Index of Self-Destructive Acts” is about the tension between humanity and raw data
- Aug 29, 2020: Palantir, China, plus the future of startups and neighborhoods
- Mar 22, 2020: Reflections on the PhD I didn’t do
- Mar 21, 2020: Wow, what a Q1
- Dec 25, 2019: Best Articles I Wrote (2019 Edition)
- Dec 25, 2019: Best Books I Read (2019 Edition)
- Dec 22, 2019: Best Articles I Read (2019 Edition)
- Aug 26, 2019: How I use Anki to learn Korean
- Jul 3, 2019: Book Review: Will & Ariel Durant’s The Lessons of History
- Jun 30, 2019: Book Review: Nigel Collett’s A Death in Hong Kong
- Jan 1, 2019: Best Articles I Wrote (2018 Edition)
- Jan 1, 2019: Best Articles I Read (2018 Edition)
- Dec 30, 2018: Two dystopias for the holidays: We & The Handmaid’s Tale
- Dec 21, 2018: Writing Review for Week of Dec 17, 2018
- Dec 14, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of Dec 3 & 10, 2018
- Nov 24, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of Nov 12 & 19, 2018
- Nov 10, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of Oct 29 & Nov 5, 2018
- Oct 28, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of Oct 15 & 22, 2018
- Oct 13, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of Oct 1 & 8, 2018
- Sep 30, 2018: Writing Review for Week of Sept 24, 2018
- Sep 21, 2018: Writing Review for Week of Sept 17, 2018
- Sep 14, 2018: Writing Review for Week of Sept 10, 2018
- Sep 10, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of Aug 1-Sept 9, 2018
- Aug 4, 2018: Writing Review for Week of July 30, 2018
- Jul 29, 2018: Writing Review for Week of July 23, 2018
- Jul 20, 2018: Writing Review for Weeks of July 9th & July 16th, 2018
- Jul 9, 2018: Writing Review for Week of July 2nd, 2018
- Jun 29, 2018: Writing Review for Week of June 25th, 2018
- Jun 23, 2018: Writing Review for Week of June 18th, 2018
- Jun 17, 2018: Writing Review for Week of June 11th, 2018
- Jun 11, 2018: Writing Review for Week of June 4th, 2018
- May 31, 2018: Ethics
- Apr 6, 2018: Venture Capital Disrupted (Princeton 2018 Spring Lecture)
- Jan 9, 2018: How much do we really know?
- Dec 28, 2017: My Favorite Books of the Year 2017
- Dec 18, 2017: The Problem of Books
- Oct 31, 2017: What Happens When All Content Is Just Pee In The Pool
- Oct 28, 2017: Why is Communication Around (Work) Promotions / Salaries So Bad?
- Oct 27, 2017: What Would You Do If You Could Reinvent Government?
- Oct 20, 2017: 2017 and Regulated Businesses (Princeton Fall 2017 Lecture)
- Oct 16, 2017: Why Millennials Won't Run For Public Office
- Oct 15, 2017: Why is American Disaster Recovery So Bad?
- Oct 2, 2017: Economic Nationalism and China: The Right Issue for 2018 and 2020?
- Oct 1, 2017: The Strange Politics of Independence Movements
- Sep 30, 2017: Capsule Review: Cixin Liu’s Three Body Problem
- Sep 29, 2017: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Airtable as a Personal CRM
- Sep 27, 2017: Some Quick Thoughts on The Other Side of the Table
- Aug 2, 2017: The Economic Security of High Rents and Ridiculous Job Licensing
- Jul 22, 2017: Safety is the Watchword of Cost Disease
- Jul 18, 2017: The Problem With Subscription Software/Media Is High Prices
- Jul 17, 2017: Startups, Income Inequality, and the Basic Economy
- Jul 2, 2017: Will Autonomous Cars Destroy Cities As We Know Them?
- Jul 1, 2017: The Age of Investigative Tech Journalism
- Jun 17, 2017: Is war with China inevitable?
- Apr 14, 2017: Searching for that Yellow Brick Road (Princeton Spring 2017 Lecture)
- Jan 11, 2017: Good Lord, Of Course Red Lights Will Still Be Here With Autonomous Cars
- Jan 5, 2017: RipVanWinkle.js — Returning to JavaScript After 5 Years
- Jan 3, 2017: “Artificial Intelligence” & “Big Data” Are Newest Entries to My 2017 Dictionary of Uselessness
- Nov 11, 2016: Princeton Fall 2016 Lecture
- Oct 13, 2016: The Future Public Transit Explosion
- Oct 11, 2016: Leaderless Rounds and the Problem of Weasel.vc
- Sep 22, 2016: Observations on NYC Tech
- Aug 31, 2016: Housing Rant (Part Infinity) and the Economics of Hookups
- Aug 30, 2016: Housing Prices Should Go Down - Duh!
- Aug 30, 2016: The Desperate Docker Disaster
- Aug 21, 2016: What I Have Been Reading (Summer 2016)
- Jul 6, 2016: The Desperate Waves of Venture Capital
- Jun 29, 2016: A Plan For New York
- Jun 28, 2016: Some Final Thoughts On Boston
- May 16, 2016: Graph Associations for Language Learning