Atlas of Wonders and Monsters
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Hic sunt dracones, among other things
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Full Saturation
Full Saturation
Quick review of a colorful year 🎨
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December 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Full Saturation
The Capitals of the G7 Countries, Ranked
The Capitals of the G7 Countries, Ranked
On the occasion of having finally been to all of them
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December 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The Capitals of the G7 Countries, Ranked
Atlas of Links #3
Atlas of Links #3
May–November 2025
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November 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Atlas of Links #3
Book Review: Mozart the Performer
Book Review: Mozart the Performer
In which I write about a musicology book out of friendship 🎼
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November 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Book Review: Mozart the Performer
Electoral Choice from the Point of View of the Ethical Trinity
Electoral Choice from the Point of View of the Ethical Trinity
Mapping utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics to the ways of picking who I'll vote for, because why not
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November 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Electoral Choice from the Point of View of the Ethical Trinity
We Need Polycentric Cultures of Progress
We Need Polycentric Cultures of Progress
Progress studies must eventually expand to countries outside the Anglosphere
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October 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
We Need Polycentric Cultures of Progress
Cultural Evolution Works in Not-So-Mysterious Yet Often Misunderstood Ways
Cultural Evolution Works in Not-So-Mysterious Yet Often Misunderstood Ways
It's easy to underrate it, but I'm here to help!
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September 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Cultural Evolution Works in Not-So-Mysterious Yet Often Misunderstood Ways
An Adventure in Smoke Detection
An Adventure in Smoke Detection
Join me in trying to vet one particular extremely niche fact! 🚬
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September 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
An Adventure in Smoke Detection
The Color of the Future
The Color of the Future
A history of blue 🦋
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August 27, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The Color of the Future
Tech Tree Updates and Similar Projects
Tech Tree Updates and Similar Projects
With credit to other tech macrohistory enthusiasts
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July 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Tech Tree Updates and Similar Projects
Experiment: The Mystery of Blue Raspberry Flavor
Experiment: The Mystery of Blue Raspberry Flavor
Is it fully artificial, or related to the rare black raspberry? 🔵
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July 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Experiment: The Mystery of Blue Raspberry Flavor
No, we shouldn't return to the climate of the 18th century
No, we shouldn't return to the climate of the 18th century
Improving the climate is a better goal than trying to fight change.
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June 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No, we shouldn't return to the climate of the 18th century
Introducing the Historical Tech Tree
Introducing the Historical Tech Tree
An attempt at reducing the burden of tech complexity ⚙️
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May 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Introducing the Historical Tech Tree
Atlas of Links #2
Atlas of Links #2
Recent writings by me and related materials; collections of interesting aesthetics
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April 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Atlas of Links #2
Multi-country civilizations are good, actually
Multi-country civilizations are good, actually
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March 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Multi-country civilizations are good, actually
Deep Into the Depths
Deep Into the Depths
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February 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Deep Into the Depths
Make America a Continent Again
Make America a Continent Again
A modest proposal 🌎
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January 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Make America a Continent Again
Atrophy of the Writing Muscle
Atrophy of the Writing Muscle
Sorry I know I said that I wanted to write less about writing but here's a short post about writing 💪
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January 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Atrophy of the Writing Muscle
A Substack Sabbatical
A Substack Sabbatical
Four years later, time to take a break! 4️⃣
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November 19, 2024 at 2:40 AM
A Substack Sabbatical
Living on the Periphery of the Empire
Living on the Periphery of the Empire
What do you do when you grow up at the edge of a superpower? 🇺🇸
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November 5, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Living on the Periphery of the Empire
Hopeful Monsters
Hopeful Monsters
Not a rebranding 🎃
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October 31, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Hopeful Monsters
Karl Popper’s Theory of Evolution
Karl Popper’s Theory of Evolution
Natural selection as creative and purposeful problem-solving ☁️
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October 25, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Karl Popper’s Theory of Evolution
Atlas of Links #1
Atlas of Links #1
Blogging battles, burning buildings, beautiful brutalism, and more
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October 16, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Atlas of Links #1
Histories of the Greater West
Histories of the Greater West
Imagining trees of culture to understand civilizations better 𓏞
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October 10, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Histories of the Greater West