Onward, with Doubt
Essays on tech, economics and decisions that don’t come with clean answers
Around 300 BCE in Alexandria, Elements, humanity’s second best seller, opens with a definition, ‘a point is that which has no part’, followed by ‘a line is a breadthless length’. Euclid compiled three centuries of geometric discoveries of early Greeks and ordered them through a single series of impressive deductive links. For the next two…
My Neighbor Totoro starts with one summer day in the Japanese countryside. Tatsuo and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei, arrive in a rattling truck along a winding road, pulling up to a dusty, creaky house that has been empty just long enough. They’ve moved to be closer to the girls’ mother, who is recovering…
Many of us may remember Voltaire as an Enlightenment era philosopher who famously preached moderation (i.e. “Use, but do not abuse”) while consuming enormous amount of (~40-50 cups?) of coffee a day. Known for his satirical talent, he also argued that we are trapped in a hall of mirrors of anthropomorphism since the first flickering…
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