- Read: Americans don’t have a lack of free speech, they have a lack of listening.
- Lex Fridman’s podcasts are really long (sometimes 3-4 hours), but these are interesting:
- Noam Chomsky on Putin and Ukraine. I found Chomsky’s points on invading other counties (e.g., US to Iraq, Stalin and Hitler to Poland, Putin to Ukraine) to be fair, as well as his comments on Putin wanting to make Russia great again. We shouldn’t be hypocrites when it comes to “the evil that (other) men do.”
- Coffeezilla on FTX, crypto-fraud and investigative journalism.
- Tony Fadell on designing the iPod, iPhone and Nest thermostat. Tony’s example of Steve Jobs as “an asshole with a mission, not an ego” is very insightful.
- Listen to how police used the blockchain to identify and arrest dozens of men abusing children (and sharing videos of that abuse). A little less of that disgusting evil.
- Read: Wanna save the environment? Empower indigenous people to protect (and own) their traditional lands. (I’m seeing examples of why this is necessary in the southern African countries I am visiting, where aggressive locals displaced hunter-gatherers and colonizers destroyed everything to extract resources.
- Read: The implications of tech mayhem in 2022.
- Low-tech Magazine has a lot of deep, insightful stories:
- How novelists are using ChatGPT (AI) to write
- Watch: The great places destroyed by suburbia
- Listen: Freakonomics rediscovers the “real” Adam Smith
The link for #10 goes to freakonomics as well. The link for #1 goes to endlessly regurgitated rubbish.
Thanks!
#1 seems fine. #10 was a dupe and I can’t remember where it was supposed to go 🙁
Hmmm, this has been bothering so I’ll throw it out there. You have a good blog, you post good links, that economist article is atrocious and old hack. What gives?
Well, we disagree. Their point — we don’t lack speech but listening — is correct IMO. What’s atrocious?