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This is the 5th idea I’ve added to the list of Ideas I’m Mulling. So far, there’s the codex vitae (book of beliefs), prisoner’s dilemma, the capabilities approach, and wicked problems. Cognitive biases are a wicked problem. …

This is the 4th idea I’ve added to the list of Ideas I’m Mulling. So far, there’s the codex vitae (book of beliefs), prisoner’s dilemma, and the capabilities approach. It’s interesting to create this list in slow motion, because it’s inevitable that creating a list of ideas that seem to…

This is the 3rd idea I’ve added to the list of Ideas I’m Mulling. I have been kind of obsessed with Martha Nussbaum’s work ever since reading Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach. If you enjoyed The Good Place but felt like it didn’t really fully address the questions it…

This is the 2nd idea I’m adding to the Ideas I’m Mulling file, because it has been with me for a while and continues to be a thing I like to mull. As I mention in the ideas file: I love everything about prisoner’s dilemma (wikipedia) because it is a…

The first thing I’m adding to my Ideas I’m Mulling doc has to be the codex itself, which I started in 2012 after being inspired by an idea by the same name in Robin Sloan’s book Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. I’ve written about it a lot over the last decade…

Every year for the last 10+ years I’ve reviewed and updated my book of beliefs (also called a codex vitae sometimes). Every time I look at it I get a weird sense that some parts of it are more stale than others. This year, when reading the section about some…

I haven’t been blogging much recently. I mean, exhibit A: I still call it blogging. These are called tiktoks now, right? I’ve been working on a 100-day streak on the new 750words.com to get the phoenix badge for the first time since 2010 (I’m more of a few-days-a-week kind of…