I Have Owned a Lucky Shirt. I Have Knocked on Wood.
I am not immune to any of this. The question is never whether you think irrationally. It is whether anybody has died of it.
Category: Critical Thinking (Page 2)
Behind the BookAnger Gets Six Times the Engagement. The Rest Follows From That.
We saw the warning signs. Facebook was making us depressed, Twitter was making us angry, and we kept using them anyway.
Behind the BookI Climbed Out of That Canyon at Eight at Night
Breathless at the top of a canyon at eight at night, explaining to a fireman named Kurt what had happened and where my father was.
Artificial IntelligenceThe Cracks in AI Search Nobody’s Warning You About
AI search makes your website matter more, and it is also broken in ways nobody selling it will admit: opaque, slow to update, confidently wrong about you with no appeal, and corruptible by competitors. It is worth pursuing and badly…
Critical ThinkingEurydice: The Confession of Tom Ayrton
Verne gave Tom Ayrton thirty pages and no interior. This is his confession, taken in sessions after twelve years alone on Tabor Island, including what he did for his wife.
Artificial IntelligenceYou’re Renting, Not Owning: What the Anthropic Shutdown Teaches Writers
The U.S. government switched off Anthropic's most powerful AI models overnight, proving in a single stroke that nobody who uses AI actually owns it. If your business runs on a rented tool, whoever controls it can change the deal or…
Behind the BookThe Fire Jumped the Road Behind Me. I Had Nothing in the Car.
Fire on both sides of the road, and when I looked back it had jumped behind me. Years of camping experience and nothing in the car that helped.
Behind the BookI Set Out to Understand What I Was Watching on YouTube
Comment sections full of people who sounded like they were preparing for a war nobody had formally declared. The view counts were too high for it to be fringe.
Critical ThinkingCloudborn
A shear event kills the flock in forty seconds. Silt is alone in open atmosphere for the first time. Hard science fiction survival told from a genuinely alien point of view.
Critical ThinkingFamily on Ice
The Toba eruption cut sunlight across Eurasia seventy-four thousand years ago. A family group tries to stay alive through it, in prose with no quotation marks and no comfort.
Critical ThinkingThe Mysterious Island
Verne's castaway novel retold as the private record of Gideon Spilett, with Neb given his own story and a New Mexican widow the original did not have.
Critical ThinkingBook Banning: History, Motivations, and Why It Matters
Books carry ideas, and that is exactly why people keep trying to burn them. From Socrates to Harry Potter, the impulse to ban runs straight through history. Here is where book banning came from, the motivations that keep it alive,…