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Culture

Silencing a Voice That Says You’re a Fraud

Many people’s Inner Critic makes an appearance early in life and is such a constant companion that it’s part of their personality.

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Culture

Farewell to Judgment

The works of Shakespeare contain important knowledge. But it is not scientific knowledge, nor could it ever be built into a theory. It is knowledge

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Culture

A Manifesto for Scholarly Publishing

Commercial publishers, except for those who produce scientific and technical books, generally don’t traffic in hard ideas. They’re too difficult to sell in scalable numbers

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Science

Too complex to exist

Much like the power grid, the financial system is a series of complex, interlocking contingencies. And in such a system, the biggest risk of all

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Culture

Fast bikes, slow food, and the workplace wars

If boring labor is a threat to one’s humanity, it stands to reason that interesting labor can be a form of redemption. The Victorian sage

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Culture

Caleb Crain on the New Alain de Botton

Caleb Crain excoriates Alain de Botton for closet snobbery.…

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