Something I’m enjoying doing is using Claude (Anthropic’s equivalent to ChatGPT) to summarise podcasts, books and in this case an article I keep hearing about but never completed reading. Scott Alexander posted the Meditations on Moloch article in 2014 and the Game B community, especially people like Daniel Schmachtenberger has been talking about multi-polar traps… Continue reading Meditations on Moloch – Summary
Category: Review
What’s Our Problem by Tim Urban – Summary
What’s our problem? I highly recommend the Book / Audiobook of What’s Our Problem by Wait But Why’s author Tim Urban. Michael Kubler: I really liked this book and felt like the topics discussed in it are important for society to understand. Unfortunately it’s hard for me to take detailed notes when listening to the… Continue reading What’s Our Problem by Tim Urban – Summary
Personal Weekly Review – 12 item list
If you don’t learn from your mistakes, you are doomed to repeat them. As such, doing a regular review is important and talked about in plenty of life hacking / self-help books. The thing is, I’ve had a weekly repeating Google Calendar entry about doing a weekly review for years, but it just said “Weekly Review”.… Continue reading Personal Weekly Review – 12 item list
The Wealth of Nations but not of the world
So I recently started listening to the audiobook of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. It’s an epic 36 hour long audiobook. I’ve got the physical book as well and it’s also an epic tome. But, within the intro chapter Adam Smith already makes some presuppositions or at least conclusions which irritate me. For example… Continue reading The Wealth of Nations but not of the world
To Sell is Human – Dan Pink
One of the TED talks I have watched the most and basically require other people to watch is on The Surprising Science of Motivation. In the presentation Dan Pink talks about Intrinsic Motivation, something which as a programmer, film maker, entrepreneur and activist I am very deeply motivated by. In the TED talk Dan Pink basically explains… Continue reading To Sell is Human – Dan Pink