Why And How We Preschedule Posts
a self-indulgent meta-post about the process of blogging
Topic
Writing
A collection of 11 issues
New Book: Book
It's a book about being a book. Book book book book.
Loud & Wrong
Bourdain Statements: saying a false thing loudly to provoke other people to correct you.
Book Review: Yąnomamö: The Fierce People
Napoleon Chagnon's book was so poorly received that he was accused of committing genocide via measles. Needless to say, I was intrigued.
The Best Prediction Ever: Darwin and the Founder Effect
How did Charles Darwin make the best prediction ever? Why are there more accents in the UK than in the US? Why are there yellow watermelons in Africa? Weirdly these all have the same answer.
For And Against Pre-Scheduling Posts
Pre-scheduling posts has a couple of big benefits and a couple of major costs.
Request for Punctuation Marks
We ¿need? more punctuation marks, we need them now
Pareto Chinese: Say Xi's
You should probably forget about learning Chinese meaningfully. So how does one learn Chinese meaninglessly? I’m so glad you asked.
Beautiful World Where Are You?
Four people have relationships with each other, and discuss them
Book Recap: Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death
"Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us; Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance." Television has destroyed shared context and turned everything into entertainment.