(Note: This is a personal history, which I am writing as a record of my own thoughts and experiences over the last two years; it may be...

"When they go low, we go so high that we are above the whole system looking down at it with contempt." Andrew Yang has bitten the bullet...

I see binary thinking as the central error being committed by nearly everyone when discussing topics surrounding the pandemic and the...

(N.B. All advice is personal and results will always vary; you may need to hear the exact opposite of what I have to say here. Maybe just...

See Part 1 and Part 2. This took longer than expected both for personal reasons, and also because the articles are on average much longer...

See here for Part 1, including Scott Alexander, Fredrik DeBoer, Jacob Falkovich, and Elizabeth Spiers. Minor correction: rereading Jacob...

This week the New York Times published the piece on Scott Alexander that led him to shut down his blog, SlateStarCodex, for six months....

My toddler nephew likes to play a game where I introduce myself ("Hi, I'm Josh, nice to meet you!") and he replies by introducing himself...

(Some of this is from memory, and may not be perfectly accurate. Correct me where I am wrong!) The last four years have been pretty...

Listening to a Rationally Speaking episode from last year (ostensibly about the debate over sex differences in the human brain), I ran...