Links
Interesting stuff I've found on the web. Links to other people's work, blogs, useful websites, and generally intriguing stuff
Anthropologist-designer writing about knowledge work, cognition, and the digital garden form. Largely the reason this site exists.
A long-running, deeply-tended personal site. The patron saint of essays-that-take-years.
On finitude, attention, and the practical philosophy of having only 4,000 weeks.
Cliodynamics — treating history as a science, with all the messiness that implies.
An open-source tool for finding consensus at scale. Used by vTaiwan; useful model for digital democracy.
Digital democracy experiment — citizens, ministries, and rough consensus.
Why our information environment looks the way it does, and what could replace it.
The empirical scaffolding behind cliodynamics. A weirdly ambitious project.
Where most of my thinking happens before it lands here.
For not forgetting the things I actually highlighted.
Slow social network for collecting and connecting ideas. The opposite of an algorithm.
On the tradeoff between high-variance creative work and dependable output.
A list of impossibly-fast historical projects. Re-reading this changes what you think is possible.
Long, occasionally over-confident, but the kind of essay you find yourself quoting months later.
Nothing matches.