tailwind thinking

trip report — trail runs, slots, and sandtraps

don't call it a softlaunch

Aug 29 • 

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July 2025

top 10 albums of 2025 so far

bless you, you tasteful beauties, and bless this music too. some strong aoty candies in the mix.

Jul 1 • 

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June 2025

you can ignore that ai 2027 forecast

how to evaluate predictions that include exponential intelligence improvements

Jun 18 • 

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contours of the new political order

the emerging consensus on the good life, markets, labor, and state capacity that could enable the democratic party's eisenhower moment

Jun 10 • 

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October 2024

on the normativity of excitement and the possibility of aesthetic appreciation

or, what we're doing when we disagree about the boring and the beautiful

Oct 15, 2024 • 

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June 2024

trip report: utah, california & oregon coast

16 nights | 7 states | 3,850 miles

Jun 13, 2024 • 

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April 2023

December 2022

seasons change—my 2022 cycling recap

a unique year—probably not the last, but maybe the last one racing

Dec 28, 2022 • 

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effective altruism on the verge of bankruptcy

the philosophical conjuring tricks were more important than the financial ones

Dec 14, 2022 • 

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November 2022

the limits of egalitarian taste-making

david marx’s 2022 status and culture is the best bad book i’ve read in a while.

Nov 6, 2022 • 

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September 2022

fiscal buffering or bust

tl;dr: raising interest rates will hurt, not help, inflation by making it more difficult to build the capacity required to rebound from ongoing supply…

Sep 22, 2022 • 

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August 2021

hurricane ridge kom attempt

the setting

Aug 4, 2021 • 

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