- Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s “digital minister”, is an original thinker
- So Moynihan was wrong about “black families”? Listen to this.
- San Francisco is losing its Private Investigators
- Margaret Atwood sees the darkness of our times — and how to resist
- The economics of vending machines (a lot has changed since I ran one!)
- How targeted (vote! stay home!) political advertising works
- Thomas Friedman looks at US politics through a foreign policy lens
- Gaming chairs are getting better at supporting immobility, which is bad for your circulation (and probably your soul), but also part of the “retreat from reality” I predicted for a good part of society.
- Anne Appelbaum on the twilight of democracy (the comments to this podcast leave me worried for America; seems that lots of people are excited to trade freedom for controls on “left-wing terrorists” [sic]. Read Jacob’s Dark Age Ahead (2005) for more.
- An over-caffinated guy says “don’t get into watches!” (Too late 😉