Stories by paulpauper

If All Your Friends Get iPhones, Should You?

The Pessimist's Reading List

Naive Realism and the Unconstrained Vision

Technology Profanes the Sacred

Go read some Vernor Vinge

Russia's Backdoor to the Global Banking System Is Slamming Shut

The pain of weight gain: self-experimentation with overfeeding

The Fed's Foot-Dragging Is Making the Last Mile Harder

Even Oprah Doesn't Know How to Talk About Weight Loss Now

As obesity rates rise in the U.S., weight-loss drugs surge in popularity

Medicare to cover obesity drugs, but not for weight loss

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Decries 50-Year Jail Sentence as Excessive

Down the Rabbit Hole of Money in Politics

The Self-Improvement of Jonah Franks

We could return to the productivity growth of the 1990s

The Gladstone Report

Descriptivism Self-Negates on Multiple Levels

How Do Values Change?

Things That Don't Work