Love bumping into friends' posts when Googling for information. Hat tip @albertodebo https://t.co/aR8lG48CFw

Strategy is as much about what an organization does not do as it is about what it does. — Richard Rumelt, Good Strategy; Bad Strategy

Conjecture Institute has published two books this year: 1. The Sovereign Child 2. Lords of the Cosmos We expect to publish two books in 2026 as well: 3. Bold Conjectures, Volume I (interview transcripts) 4. Bold Conjectures, Volume II (original physics essays) Stay tuned!📚

Lords of the Cosmos: From Stasis to Stars, by Conjecture Institute Fellow @arjunkhemani & President @ChipkinLogan is available now in Kindle, paperback, and hardback! This book is Conjecture Institute's second of the year.

Schools are not victims of screens. Kids are victims of schools. The education system is so far removed from real-world problems that kids have to reach for screens to pursue their interest and find the knowledge they need.

Knowledge is the most powerful force in the universe. With it, humanity can create any object the laws of physics allow. That’s the central idea of my new book with @ChipkinLogan, Lords of the Cosmos. It explains why suffering is bound to staticity—and why creativity is the

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Ford’s Model T was like Newtonian physics - so superb and dominant that it seemed like the final word on the matter - but wasn’t. It’s sometimes hard to realize that the world of possibilities is vast, and even the best things are just stepping stones to greater ones.

The actual problem *now* includes an actual ~1.2 million road deaths per year: largely solved by AI drivers. Doomers will sacrifice actual lives today for their imaginary scenarios in 5 years.

Here's a different narrative: If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest lowering of the barriers put in front of ordinary people in history. The lower-income

I share James Marriott concern for the effect of a loss of literacy, but I don't buy the "screens and big tech are bad and are doing this to us" explanation. For sure, screens can have deleterious effects. But, as always, it depends on how people use them.

Packed with arguments. Not a blog post. Not a long-form article padded with filler. A history of humanity that will put some pep in your step.

Self-help books are terrible, but this is an exception:

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Our conversations about nature and about ourselves are conducted in whatever “languages” we find it possible and convenient to employ. We do not see nature or intelligence or human motivation or ideology as “it” is but only as our languages are. And our languages are our media.

"I raise no objection to television’s junk. The best things on television are its junk, and no one and nothing is seriously threatened by it. Besides, we do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. Therein is our

"As the influence of print wanes, the content of politics, religion, education, and anything else that comprises public business must change and be recast in terms that are most suitable to television." Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death

This is a wonderful resource by @PaulRBerg for those interested in Many-Worlds: https://t.co/RTqySLfmVw

You hear “screens” and think “cocomelon” or “TikTok”, I hear “screens” and think “sand and math wrought by man into relics that produce miracles, miracles to which adults are inured but upon which child might still gaze with awe and wonder”

"All that lunacy is temporary. It can't last. It's demented, so it has to defeat itself. You and I will just have to work a little harder for a while, that's all." — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged